Cetonia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Cetoniinae
Tribus: Cetoniini
Subtribus: Cetoniina
Genus: Cetonia
Subgenera: Eucetonia – Indocetonia – Sakaiana

Species (33): C. aeratula – C. angulicollis – C. annamitica – C. asiatica – C. aurata – C. bensoni – C. carthami – C. chinensis – C. cypriaca – C. delagrangei – C. filchnerae – C. funeraria – C. kemali – C. kolbei – C. laeviventris – C. magnifica – C. pakistanica – C. philippeantoinei – C. pilifera – C. pililineata – C. prasinata – C. pygidionotis – C. rhododendri – C. roelofsi – C. rutilans – C. sakaii – C. sehnali – C. sexguttata – C. sichuana – C. vetusta – C. viridescens – C. viridiopaca – C. wrzecionkoi

Cetonia (s. str.) species (10): C. aeratula – C. asiatica – C. aurata – C. carthami – C. cypriaca – C. delagrangei – C. funeraria – C. kemali – C. sexguttata – C. viridescens
Name

Cetonia Fabricius, 1775: 42

Type species: Scarabaeus auratus Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymy

Cetonia bicornis Latreille, 1817 = Dicheros bicornis Latreille, 1817
Cetonia elegans Fabricius, 1781 = Heterorhina elegans (Fabricius, 1781)
Cetonia elegans Leoni, 1910 = Cetonia aurata pisana Heer, 1841
Cetonia macleayi Kirby, 1818 = Heterorhina macleayi (Kirby, 1818)

References
Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae. xvi+ 832 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.36510. BHL. Reference page. [original description: p. 42]

Links

Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on April 28, 2017]

Cetonia is a genus of beetles in family Scarabaeidae. One of the most familiar species is the rose chafer (C. aurata).
Species

Cetonia aeratula
Cetonia angulicollis
Cetonia asiatica
Cetonia aurata (Rose chafer)
Cetonia aurataeformis
Cetonia bensoni
Cetonia carthami
Cetonia chinensis
Cetonia cypriaca
Cetonia delagrangei
Cetonia delfilsi
Cetonia filchnerae
Cetonia funeraria
Cetonia gotoana
Cetonia iijimai
Cetonia ishigakia
Cetonia izuensis
Cetonia kemali
Cetonia kolbei

Cetonia magnifica
Cetonia pallida
Cetonia pilifera
Cetonia pililineata
Cetonia pisana
Cetonia pokornyi
Cetonia prasinata
Cetonia pygidionotis
Cetonia rhododendri
Cetonia roelofsi
Cetonia rutilans
Cetonia sexguttata
Cetonia sichuana
Cetonia sicula
Cetonia tane
Cetonia viridescens
Cetonia viridiopaca
Cetonia viridiventris

Names brought to synonymy

Cetonia elegans Leoni, 1910, a synonym for Cetonia aurata pisana, a subspecies (Cetoniini) of the rose chafer
Cetonia elegans Fabricius, 1781, a synonym for Heterorrhina elegans, a species (Goliathini) found in India and Sri Lanka

References

Johan Christian Fabricius : Genera insectorum (1777)