Protaetia

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: Protaetia
Subgenera: Acanthoprotaetia – Autoprotaetia – Bhaskaria – Calopotosia – Caloprotaetia – Celebesiana – Cetonischema – Chalcoprotaetia – Chrysoliocola – Chrysopotosia – Dicranobia – Endroedia – Eumimimetica – Eupotosia – Euprotaetia – P. (Euprotaetiomima) – Fairmairiana – Finkia – Foveopotosia – Goetzia – Gonoprotaetia – Indoprotaetia – P. (Lawangia) – Liocola – Macroliocola – Macroprotaetia – Miksicoprotaetia – Netocia – Netociomima – Niponoprotaetia – Odontoprotaetia – Oreopotosia – Oxyperatex – Pachyprotaetia – Philhelena – Poecilophana – Potosia – Potosiomima – Progastor – P. (Protaetiola) – Protaetiophana – Pseudanatona – Pseudocalopotosia – Pseudocetonischema – Pseudonetocia – Pseudonetocia – Pyropotosia – Singhalopotosia – Stethoprotaetia – Tomentoprotaetia – Vietnamoprotaetia

Species (334): P. absidata – P. acantha – P. acutissima – P. adelpha – P. adspersa – P. advena – P. aeneipes – P. aethiessina – P. affinis – P. afflicta – P. afghana – P. agglomerata – P. alboguttata – P. allardi – P. allardi – P. alorica – P. ambigua – P. andamanarum – P. andrewsi – P. angustata – P. annae – P. anneliae – P. anovittata – P. antoinei – P. aruensis – P. asiatica – P. aterrima – P. audreyae – P. aurichalcea – P. auripes – P. bellula – P. besucheti – P. bidentipes – P. bifenestrata – P. bipunctata – P. bogdanoffi – P. boholica – P. bokonjici – P. boudanti – P. boulleti – P. bousqueti – P. bremei – P. brevitarsis – P. burmanica – P. buruensis – P. butozani – P. calcuttensis – P. candezei – P. cariana – P. carinicollis – P. catanduanesiensis – P. cataphracta – P. cathaica – P. caucasica – P. caudata – P. celebica – P. ceylanica – P. chaminadei – P. chewi – P. chicheryi – P. chicheryiana – P. ciliata – P. ciocolatina – P. coenosa – P. coeruleosignata – P. collfsi – P. compacta – P. confusa – P. conspersa – P. crassipes – P. cretica – P. culta – P. cuprea – P. cupreola – P. cupriceps – P. cuprina – P. cupripes – P. cyanea – P. cyanescens – P. davaoana – P. davidiana – P. dayaoensis – P. delavayi – P. delponti – P. descarpentriesi – P. distincta – P. dubitativa – P. ducalis – P. elegans – P. elizabethae – P. endroedii – P. engelhardi – P. engganica – P. evangelinae – P. exasperata – P. excavata – P. excisithorax – P. famelica – P. fausti – P. ferruginea – P. fieberi – P. flutschi – P. flutschiana – P. formosana – P. francisi – P. franzi – P. fruhstorferi – P. fukinukii – P. fulgidipes – P. funebris – P. funesta – P. fusca – P. fuscovirens – P. gertrudae – P. gestroi – P. gillesi – P. goudoti – P. guerini – P. gueyraudi – P. guttulata – P. hageni – P. hainanensis – P. hajastanica – P. hallegueni – P. hamidi – P. hammondi – P. handschini – P. heinrichi – P. herteli – P. hiekeiana – P. hieroglyphica – P. himalayana – P. horni – P. humeralis – P. ignisternum – P. ignot – P. igorota – P. ikonomovi – P. impavida – P. inanis – P. incerta – P. indecora – P. indica – P. inexpectata – P. inquinata – P. insperata – P. insularis – P. interruptecostata – P. intricata – P. ishigakia – P. ismaeli – P. jacobsoni – P. jelineki – P. johani – P. judith – P. kalisi – P. karbalayei – P. karelini – P. kasriadii – P. kawaii – P. keithi – P. keyensis – P. khorasanica – P. kohouseki – P. kuehbandneri – P. kulabensis – P. kulzeri – P. kurosawai – P. labarosae – P. laotica – P. latimarginalis – P. lecourti – P. lenzi – P. leucogramma – P. leucopyga – P. lewisi – P. ligularis – P. limbicollis – P. lineata – P. lombokiana – P. longipennis – P. lorkovici – P. loudai – P. lugubrides – P. lumawigi – P. luridoguttata – P. lyrata – P. mandschuriensis – P. marceani – P. marginicollis – P. mariae – P. marlenae – P. marmorata – P. maxwelli – P. mayeti – P. medvedevi – P. mentawaica – P. metallica – P. microbalia – P. miharai – P. miksici – P. miksiciana – P. milani – P. mindoroensis – P. mineti – P. minima – P. mirifica – P. mixta – P. miyakoensis – P. mohagani – P. montana – P. morio – P. multifoveolata – P. multiguttulata – P. neglecta – P. neonata – P. nigra – P. nigrobrunnea – P. nigropurpurea – P. nitididorsis – P. niveoguttata – P. nocturna – P. nodieri – P. novaki – P. nox – P. nusatenggaraensis – P. obiensis – P. oblonga – P. obscurella – P. obtusa – P. ochroplagiata – P. olivacea – P. opaca – P. orientalis – P. oschimana – P. palembangeana – P. papuana – P. paulianiana – P. pauperata – P. pavicevici – P. pectoralis – P. peregrina – P. peterjacki – P. petrovi – P. philippensis – P. plebeja – P. porloyi – P. potanini – P. pretiosa – P. prevosti – P. procera – P. proctotricha – P. prolongata – P. prunina – P. pryeri – P. pseudoheydeni – P. pulverisata – P. puncticollis – P. purpurissata – P. quadriadspersa – P. querula – P. rana – P. rataji – P. reflexa – P. regalis – P. renei – P. resplendens – P. rubrocuprea – P. rudis – P. rufescens – P. rufocuprea – P. ruteri – P. ruteriana – P. sakaiana – P. salomoensis – P. salvazai – P. sangirensis – P. sardea – P. sauteri – P. scepsia – P. schelkovnikovi – P. scutellaris – P. sericophora – P. shamil – P. siamensis – P. sircari – P. solorensis – P. soulai – P. soulai – P. speciosa – P. speciosissima – P. spectabilis – P. speculifera – P. splendidula – P. squamipennis – P. squamosa – P. strigicollis – P. subpilosa – P. subviridis – P. sulana – P. sulawesiana – P. sutchuenica – P. sutteri – P. szechenyi – P. taciturna – P. talicici – P. teisseyrei – P. tenuicollis – P. tenuivestis – P. ternatana – P. terrosa – P. tesari – P. thibetana – P. tibialis – P. timorensis – P. tingaudi – P. tomiana – P. tristicula – P. trojana – P. tropida – P. turkestanica – P. turlini – P. uhligi – P. ungarica – P. venerabilis – P. ventralis – P. vermifer – P. vidua – P. vietnamica – P. wetarica – P. whitehousei – P. wiebesi – P. wongi – P. yunnana

Protaetia (s. str.) species (94): P. advena – P. allardi – P. ambigua – P. anneliae – P. anovittata – P. antoinei – P. bidentipes – P. boudanti – P. boulleti – P. bremei – P. burmanica – P. buruensis – P. calcuttensis – P. candezei – P. cariana – P. carinicollis – P. catanduanesiensis – P. celebica – P. ciocolatina – P. coenosa – P. coeruleosignata – P. compacta – P. cupreola – P. cupripes – P. dubitativa – P. ducalis – P. elizabethae – P. evangelinae – P. ferruginea – P. francisi – P. fusca – P. fuscovirens – P. goudoti – P. guerini – P. gueyraudi – P. guttulata – P. hageni – P. hammondi – P. heinrichi – P. hiekeiana – P. humeralis – P. ignot – P. igorota – P. incerta – P. indecora – P. ismaeli – P. johani – P. kawaii – P. kulzeri – P. kurosawai – P. labarosae – P. leucogramma – P. leucopyga – P. limbicollis – P. lineata – P. marceani – P. miksici – P. mindoroensis – P. nigra – P. nocturna – P. obiensis – P. obscurella – P. obtusa – P. pauperata – P. pavicevici – P. peregrina – P. plebeja – P. prevosti – P. pseudoheydeni – P. puncticollis – P. quadriadspersa – P. querula – P. rana – P. reflexa – P. resplendens – P. ruteri – P. salomoensis – P. salvazai – P. sangirensis – P. scepsia – P. scutellaris – P. siamensis – P. soulai – P. squamipennis – P. subviridis – P. sulana – P. sulawesiana – P. talicici – P. tenuicollis – P. ternatana – P. tibialis – P. tomiana – P. vermifer – P. vietnamica
Name

Protaetia Burmeister, 1842: 472

Type species: Cetonia mandarina Weber, 1801 (= Cetonia fusca Herbst, 1790).

Synonymy

Poecilophana Kraatz, 1895
Protaecia Reitter, 1898
Pseudanthracophora Kraatz, 1898
Liocola Thomson, 1859
Potosia Mulsant, 1871
Pyropotosia Reitter, 1898

References
Primary references

Burmeister, H. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Dritter Band. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. xx + 826 + 1 pp. Reference page. [original description: p. 472]

Additional references

Hell, 1896, Abh. Mus. Drescen, VI, nr. 3.
Jakl, S. 2022a. Description of two new species of Protaetia Burmeister, 1842 from the Philippines from rarely collected subgenera Lawangia Schenkling, 1921 and Protaetiola Mikšič, 1963 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Studies and Reports Taxonomical Series 18(1): 95-103. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Kraatz, 1881, Dutsche Ent. Zeitschr., XXV: 264.
Kraatz, 1895, Dutsche Ent. Zeitschr.: 285.
Kraatz, 1896, Dutsche Ent. Zeitschr.: 407; Arrow, 1913, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), XII: 406.
Mulsant, 1871, Col. France, Lamell., Ed. 2: 669
Petzold, Maik, Cetoniini ~ Or./Pal./Austr.
Reitter, 1898, Best-Tab., XXXVIII: 26, 44.
Reitter, 1898, Vesh. Nat. Ver. Brünn, XXXVII: 44, 63; Niijima and Kinoshita, 1923, Research bulletins of the College Experiment Forests, Hokkaido University, II, 2: 176.
Thomson, 1859, Skand, Col., I: 77.
Yawata, H., 1941, Synonymic Notes on Japanese species belonging to the genus Protaetia (I), Kontyû, 15 (2): 75–84.

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 20, 2017]

Protaetia is a genus of beetles of the family Scarabaeidae, occurring primarily in Asia, and containing over 300 species.
Selected species

Protaetia affinis (Andersch, 1797)
Protaetia afflicta (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
Protaetia alboguttata (Vigors, 1826)
Protaetia aurichalcea (Fabricius, 1775)
Protaetia bipunctata (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
Protaetia brevitarsis (Lewis, 1879)
Protaetia conspersa Janson, 1877
Protaetia culta (Waterhouse, 1879)
Protaetia cuprea (Fabricius, 1775)
Protaetia fieberi (Kraatz, 1880)
Protaetia fusca (Herbst, 1790)
Protaetia haiastanica Ghrejyan & Kalashian, 2017[1]
Protaetia lewisi Janson, 1888
Protaetia lugubris (Herbst, 1786)
Protaetia mirifica (Mulsant, 1842)
Protaetia opaca (Fabricius, 1787)
Protaetia orientalis (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
Protaetia regalis (Blanchard, 1842)
Protaetia speciosa (Adams, 1817)
Protaetia spectabilis (Schaum, 1841)
Protaetia ungarica (Herbst, 1790)

References

Ghrejyan, Tigran; Kalashian, Mark (2017). "A new species of Protaetia Burmeister, 1842 from Armenia with taxonomic notes on Cetonia floricola fausti Kraatz, 1891 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)". Zootaxa. 4231 (1): 100–106. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.6. ISSN 1175-5334.

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