''Plaesiorrhina'' 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.
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Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attributed the name to 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 ...
,Westwood, 1842 (excerpt): "Illustrations of some species of Cetoniidae from Madagascar" p. 126
/ref> 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.[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] Westwood thereby became the author of the name, and Burmeister's later-published 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 ...
,[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.] and accordingly took the next available name, '' Chondrorrhina'', 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 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.[ 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
In taxonomy, the scientific classification of living organisms, a synonym is an alternative scientific name for the accepted scientific name of a taxon. The botanical and zoological codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
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of the earlier-published name.[
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Species
* ''Plaesiorrhina ochreata
''Plaesiorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attrib ...
'' (Gory & Percheron, 1835)
* ''Plaesiorrhina perrieri
''Plaesiorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attribu ...
'' (Pouillaude, 1914)
* ''Plaesiorrhina radama
''Plaesiorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attrib ...
'' (Künchel, 1887)
* ''Plaesiorrhina reflexa
''Plaesiorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attrib ...
'' (Gory & Percheron, 1835)
* ''Plaesiorrhina rolandi
''Plaesiorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attrib ...
'' (Peyrieras & Arnaud, 2000)
* ''Plaesiorrhina rufonasuta
''Plaesiorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attrib ...
'' (Fairmaire, 1902)
* ''Plaesiorrhina ruteri
''Plaesiorrhina'' is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named ''Plaesiorrhina'' by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attrib ...
'' (de Lisle, 1953)
References
Scarabaeidae genera
Cetoniinae
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