Plaesiorrhina is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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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 | |
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Taxonomy
editThe 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
edit- Plaesiorrhina ochreata (Gory & Percheron, 1835)
- Plaesiorrhina perrieri (Pouillaude, 1914)
- Plaesiorrhina radama (Künchel, 1887)
- Plaesiorrhina reflexa (Gory & Percheron, 1835)
- Plaesiorrhina rolandi (Peyrieras & Arnaud, 2000)
- Plaesiorrhina rufonasuta (Fairmaire, 1902)
- Plaesiorrhina ruteri (de Lisle, 1953)
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Westwood, 1842 (excerpt): "Illustrations of some species of Cetoniidae from Madagascar" p. 126
- ^ 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