''Chondrorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family

Scarabaeidae The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly tre ...

, subfamily

Cetoniinae Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae. Many species are diurnal and visit flowers for pollen and nectar, or to browse on the petals. Some species also feed on fruit. The group is also called fruit and ...

, found in Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by

Hermann Burmeister Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botany, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at ...

in 1842, but this same name had been published several months earlier by John O. Westwood.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 As Burmeister's name was a

junior homonym In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon. The rule in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is that the first such name to be published is the s ...

, it cannot be used, and the next available name for the same genus, ''Chondrorrhina'', was published by

Gustav Kraatz Ernst Gustav Kraatz (13 March 1831 – 2 November 1909) was a German entomologist. He collected and described numerous beetles including Staphylinidae. Kraatz was a founding member of the Berlin Entomological Club (Berliner Entomologischer Verein) ...

in 1880. As the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

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. 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''.Holm, E. (1994) On the genera of African Cetoniinae 1: The genus ''Pedinorrhina'' Kraatz and related taxa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). ''The Coleopterists Bulletin'' 48(1): 19-29 Under Holm's very restricted definition of ''Chondrorrhina'', the only included species are ''abbreviata, distincta, picturata, specularis'', and ''trivittata''. Subsequent authors (e.g.Serrano, A. R. M., Capela, R. A., Nunes, T. & Santos, C. Van-Dú-Nem Neto (2020) The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Angola: a descriptive checklist with new records and synonymic notes, Zootaxa 4776: 1-130) 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., 197
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 Bouye

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

References

Scarabaeidae genera Cetoniinae Taxa named by Ernst Gustav Kraatz Taxa described in 1880 {{Cetoniinae-stub