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The punctate flower chafer or spotted flower chafer, Neorrhina punctata, is a species of flower chafer. The chafers are beetles of subfamily Cetoniinae in the large scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). Among the chafers, N. punctatum belongs to the tribe Schizorhinini.
Punctate flower chafer | |
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At Swifts Creek, Victoria | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Scarabaeidae |
Genus: | Neorrhina |
Species: | N. punctata |
Binomial name | |
Neorrhina punctata (Donovan, 1805) | |
Synonyms | |
Numerous, see text |
This beetle occurs in eastern mainland Australia, from Victoria, through New South Wales to northern Queensland.[1]
It is also known under several other scientific names, but these are obsolete or misspelled:
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