| Plaesiorrhina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Plaesiorrhina is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa. [1]
The 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]
Rhomborhina is a genus of large scarab beetles described by Hope in 1837. They are members of the subfamily Cetoniinae. They mostly live in East and South Asia. The name is frequently misspelled as Rhomborrhina following an unjustified change by Hermann Burmeister in 1842.
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Vincent Allard was a Belgian entomologist.
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