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: Goliathini
Subtribus: Coryphocerina
Genus: Eudicella
Subgenera: E. (Aneurhina) – E. (Ceratorhinella) – E. (Coelorrhina) – E. (Coelorrhinella) – E. (Eudicella)
Overview species
E. aethiopica – E. bouyeri – E. chloe – E. colmanti – E. cupreosuturalis – E. daphnis – E. darwiniana – E. ducalis – E. frontalis – E. gralli – E. inexpectata – E. intermedia – E. morgani – E. nana – E. pauperata – E. preissi – E. smithi – E. tetraspilota – E. trimeni
Name
Eudicella White, 1839
Type species: Goliathus smithii MacLeay, 1838
Synonymy
Ceratorrhina Westwood, 1842/Allard, 1985
?Coelorrhina Westwood, 1842
?Cyprolais
References
Additional references
Holm, E. 1993: On the genera of African Cetoniinae II: Eudicella White, and the related genera with horned males (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of African zoology 107(1): 65–81. Reference page.
Lumaret, J.P. 1985. Contribution a l'etude des larves de Cetoniidae: le genre Eudicella White, 1839. Nouvelle revue d'entomologie (n.s.), 2(4): 397–401.
De Palma, M., Takano, H., Léonard, P. & Bouyer, T. 2021. Taxonomic revision of the Eudicella White, 1839 complex, with description of three new subgenera (Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae, Goliathini). Entomologia Africana 26(2): 11-24. [Full article (PDF)]. Reference page.
Seidel, M. 2016. Morphology and DNA barcoding reveal a new species of Eudicella from East Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Zootaxa 4137(4): 535–544. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.5. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
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 May 2, 2017]
Eudicella is a genus of small to medium beetles in the subfamily Cetoniidae, belonging to the wider family Scarabaeidae. They are distributed throughout the Afrotropical realm, including South Africa, Rwanda and Zimbabwe.
Species
Eudicella aethiopica Müller, 1941
Eudicella aurata (Westwood, 1841)
Eudicella babaulti (Allard, 1982)
Eudicella chloe Raffray, 1885
Eudicella colmanti Bream, 1907
Eudicella cornuta (Heath, 1904)
Eudicella cupreosuturalis Bourgoin, 1913
Eudicella daphnis (Buquet, 1835)
Eudicella darwiniana Kraatz, 1880
Eudicella ducalis Kolbe, 1914
Eudicella euthalia (Bates, 1881)
Eudicella frontalis (Westwood, 1843)
Eudicella gralli (Buquet, 1836) - Flamboyant Flower Beetle
Eudicella hereroensis Kraatz, 1900
Eudicella hornimani (Bates, 1877)
Eudicella inexpectata Antoine, 1985
Eudicella intermedia Allard, 1985
Eudicella loricata (Janson, 1877)
Eudicella morgani White, 1839
Eudicella mutica (Janson, 1915)
Eudicella pauperata Kolbe, 1884
Eudicella preissi Moser, 1912
Eudicella quadrimaculata (Fabricius, 1781)
Eudicella ruteri (De Lisle, 1953)
Eudicella selene (Kolbe, 1899)
Eudicella smithii (MacLeay, 1838)
Eudicella tetraspilota (Harold, 1879)
Eudicella trimeni (Janson, 1889)
Eudicella viridipyga (Lewis, 1879)
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