Punctate flower chafer
| Punctate flower chafer | |
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| At Swifts Creek, Victoria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Neorrhina |
| Species: | N. punctata
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| Binomial name | |
| Neorrhina punctata (Donovan, 1805)
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| Synonyms | |
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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 Australia, from 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
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Media related to Neorrhina punctatum at Wikimedia Commons
References
[edit]- ^ "Punctate flower chafer fact file". Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2007-05-15.