Pedinorrhina cinctuta

Pedinorrhina cinctuta is a beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.[1]

Pedinorrhina cinctuta
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Tribe: Goliathini
Subtribe: Rhomborhinina
Genus: Pedinorrhina
Species:
P. cinctuta
Binomial name
Pedinorrhina cinctuta
(Voet, 1779)
Synonyms
  • Scarabaeus cinctutus Voet, 1779 (Unavailable)
  • Cetonia taenia Palisot de Beauvois, 1805
  • Plaesiorrhina recurva v. plagiata Kraatz, 1900
  • Plaesiorrhina ugandensis Heath, 1903
  • Plaesiorrhina ugandensis decepta Janson, 1911
  • Plaesiorrhina erythraeana Schürhoff, 1935
  • Plaesiorrhina cinctuta kerionis Allard, 1991

Taxonomy

This species was placed into the genus Pedinorrhina by Holm in 1994,[1] but most subsequent authors (e.g.[2]) place it in the genus Chondrorrhina instead.

Description

Pedinorrhina cinctuta can reach a length of 22–25 millimetres (0.87–0.98 in). The basic colour is dark green, with a transversal orange band on the elytra.

Distribution

This species can be found in the Afrotropical region (mainly in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Uganda).

References
  1. 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
  2. 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


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