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Plaesiorrhina

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Plaesiorrhina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Cetoniinae
Tribe: Goliathini
Subtribe: Rhomborhinina
Genus: Plaesiorrhina
Westwood, 1842
Type species
Cetonia reflexa Gory & Percheron, 1835
Synonyms
  • Bothrorrhina Burmeister, 1842

Plaesiorrhina is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.[1]

Taxonomy

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The genus was originally named Plaesiorrhina by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attributed the name to Hermann Burmeister,[2] but Burmeister had not yet published it, his own use of the name not appearing in print until November or December of the same year.[3] Westwood thereby became the author of the name, and Burmeister's later-published name was a junior homonym,[1] and accordingly took the next available name, Chondrorrhina, published by Gustav Kraatz in 1880.[3] As the type species of Westwood's Plaesiorrhina was different from the type species of Burmeister's genus of the same name, and Burmeister's original taxon had a different type species from Kraatz', Burmeister's Plaesiorrhina was reduced to a subgenus and renamed as Plaesiorrhinella by Jan Krikken in 1984.[1] In that same 1842 publication, Burmeister published the name Bothrorrhina for the same taxon that Westwood had called Plaesiorrhina, with the same type species, thereby making Bothrorrhina a junior objective synonym of the earlier-published name.[1]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Krikken, J. (1984) A new key to the suprageneric taxa in the beetle family Cetoniidae, with annotated lists of the known genera. Zoologische verhandelingen 210: 1–75.
  2. ^ Westwood, 1842 (excerpt): "Illustrations of some species of Cetoniidae from Madagascar" p. 126
  3. ^ a b Bousquet, Y. (2016) Litteratura Coleopterologica (1758–1900): a guide to selected books related to the taxonomy of Coleoptera with publication dates and notes. ZooKeys 583: 1-776. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.583.7084