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Tribe: Cetoniini (fruit and flower chafers)
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> Insecta
(insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola >
Holometabola > Coleoptera
(beetles)
> Polyphaga > Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea >
Family: Scarabaeidae > Subfamily:
Cetoniinae
Some genera and species that occur in southern Africa
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Anisorrhina flavomaculata (Zig-zag fruit chafer), 25mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
Chlorocala africana, (Gleaming fruit chafer), 23mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
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Mecynorrhina passerinii (Orange-spotted fruit chafer),
31mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
Mausoleopsis amabilis (White-spotted
fruit chafer), 10-13mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
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Pachnoda
sinuata (Garden fruit chafer, Brown-and-yellow fruit chafer),
24mm, eating rose flower.
See life cycle. [image H. Robertson, Iziko
©]. |
Trichostetha
fascicularis
(Protea beetle), 25mm on protea
flowerhead.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
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Taurhina splendens (Regal fruit
chafer), 30mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
Trichostetha capensis
(Brunia beetle) [image H. Robertson, Iziko ©]. |
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