Chondrorrhina
Genus of beetles
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Chondrorrhina is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.[2]
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| Chondrorrhina mediana | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Cetoniinae |
| Tribe: | Goliathini |
| Subtribe: | Coryphocerina |
| Genus: | Chondrorrhina Kraatz, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Cetonia abbreviata Fabricius, 1792 | |
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Taxonomy
The genus was originally named Plaesiorrhina by Hermann Burmeister in 1842, but this same name had been published several months earlier by John O. Westwood.[3] As Burmeister's name was a junior homonym, it cannot be used, and the next available name for the same genus, Chondrorrhina, was published by Gustav Kraatz in 1880.[3] As the type species of Chondrorrhina (Cetonia abbreviata Fabricius, 1792) was different from the type species of Burmeister's genus (Gnathocera depressa Gory & Percheron, 1833; a synonym of Cetonia recurva Fabricius, 1801), the latter taxon was reduced to a subgenus after being renamed as Plaesiorrhinella by Jan Krikken in 1984.[2]
In 1994, Holm suggested a different set of relationships, proposing that Burmeister's genus was a synonym of Kraatz' genus Pedinorrhina rather than Chondrorrhina, and then placed Chondrorrhina as a subgenus of Pedinorrhina.[4] Under Holm's very restricted definition of Chondrorrhina, the only included species are abbreviata, distincta, picturata, specularis, and trivittata.[4] Subsequent authors (e.g.[5][6][7][8][9][10]) have not adopted this alternative classification, retaining Chondrorrhina as a genus distinct from Pedinorrhina.
Species
Subgenus Chondrorrhina
- Chondrorrhina abbreviata (Fabricius, 1792) (Africa)
- Chondrorrhina bonnardi Garnier, Flutsch & Rojkoff, 2018 (Tanzania, Zambia)
- Chondrorrhina collinsi (Allard, 1992) (Ethiopia)
- Chondrorrhina distincta (Van De Poll, 1886) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Chondrorrhina inexspectata Camiade, 2015 (Ivory Coast)
- Chondrorrhina mediana (Westwood, 1842) (tropical Africa)
- Chondrorrhina murphyi Garnier, Flutsch & Rojkoff, 2018 (Malawi, Tanzania)
- Chondrorrhina picina (Schauer, 1938) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Chondrorrhina picturata (Harold, 1878) (Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola)
- Chondrorrhina sinuosa Le Gall, 2023 (Cameroon)
- Chondrorrhina specularis (Gerstaecker, 1867) (Kenya, Tanzania)
- Chondrorrhina trivittata (Schaum, 1841)
Subgenus Plaesiorrhinella
- Chondrorrhina mhondana (Oberthür, 1880)
- Chondrorrhina plana (Wiedemann, 1821)
- Chondrorrhina recurva (Fabricius, 1801)
- Chondrorrhina undulata (Bates, 1881)
- Chondrorrhina watkinsiana (Lewis, 1879)
Bibliography
- Ruter, G., 1975 Contribution to the biological study of Northern Senegal part 28 coleoptera cetoniidae. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Serie A Sciences Naturelles 37(3): 661-668
- Massouroudin Akoudjin, Jean César, Appolinaire Kombassere. Jérémy Bouyer Spatio-temporal variability of fruit feeding insects used as ecological indicators in West Africa
- Kraatz G. (1880) Genera nova Cetonidarum, Entomologische Monatsblätter 2:17-30
- Fabricius J.C. (1792) Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species adjectis Synonimis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus, Hafniae. C. G. Proft & fils 1:1-538
- Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database. Schoolmeesters P., 2011-05-30