Bee beetle
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| Bee beetle | |
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| File:Trichius zonatus.jpg | |
| Trichius gallicus zonatus | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Tribe: | Trichiini |
| Subtribe: | Trichiina |
| Genus: | Trichius Fabricius, 1775 |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
The bee beetles are scarab beetles of the subfamily Cetoniinae.
They have hairy sides of the elytra like their relatives, and the upper sides of the elytra are usually yellow with prominent black blotches which form incomplete bands. This, and the fact that seen from the side they resemble a hairy plump bee, has given them their common name.
Species
[edit | edit source]- Trichius abdominalis Ménétriés, 1832
- Trichius fasciatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Trichius gallicus Dejean, 1821 (= T. rosaceus)[1]
- Trichius japonicus
- Trichius orientalis Reitter, 1894
- Trichius sexualis Bedel, 1906
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Krell, F-T. (2012) On nomenclature and synonymy of Trichius rosaceus, T. gallicus, and T. zonatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). Zootaxa 3278: 61–68.
External links
[edit | edit source]Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Trichius fasciatus photos at Beetlespace.wz.cz
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