Punctate flower chafer

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Punctate flower chafer
At
Swifts Creek, Victoria
Scientific classification
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Coleoptera
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Species:
N. punctata
Binomial name
Neorrhina punctata
(Donovan, 1805)
Synonyms

Numerous, see text

The punctate flower chafer or spotted flower chafer, Neorrhina punctata, is a species of flower chafer. The chafers are beetles of subfamily Cetoniinae in the large scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). Among the chafers, N. punctatum belongs to the tribe Schizorhinini.

This beetle occurs in eastern mainland

Victoria, through New South Wales to northern Queensland.[1]

It is also known under several other

scientific names
, but these are obsolete or misspelled:

  • Cetonia punctatum (lapsus)
  • Cetonia punctata Donovan, 1805
  • Neorrhina punctatum (lapsus)
  • Polystigma punctatum (lapsus)
  • Polystigma punctata (Donovan, 1805)

External links

Media related to Neorrhina punctatum at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ^ "Punctate flower chafer fact file". Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2007-05-15.