Bombodes

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Bombodes
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Cetoniinae
Genus: Bombodes
Westwood, 1848
Type species
Bombodes ursus
Westwood, 1848.

Bombodes is a genus of flower chafers. They are characterized by a bumble-bee like patterning in black and yellow with hairy covering over their bodies. About eight species are known, distributed mostly along the Himalayan ranges and surrounding regions.[1]

Species that have been described in the genus include:[2]

  • Bombodes alinae Jakl & Hava, 2020[3]
  • Bombodes tangi Huang & Chen, 2015
  • Bombodes westwoodi Thomson, 1857
  • Bombodes ursus Westwood, 1848
  • Bombodes dejeani Pouillaude, 1914
  • Bombodes vitalisi Bourgoin, 1914
    • (possibly synonymous) Bombodes affinis Bourgoin, 1917
  • Bombodes nigellus Bourgoin, 1916
  • Bombodes klapperichi Schein, 1953

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