The bee beetles are
scarab beetles
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...
of the
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 ...
.
They have hairy sides of the
elytra
An elytron (; ; , ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alterna ...
like their relatives, and the upper sides of the elytra are usually yellow with prominent black blotches which form incomplete bands. This, and the fact that seen from the side they resemble a hairy plump
bee, has given them their common name.
Species
* ''
Trichius abdominalis''
Ménétriés, 1832
* ''
Trichius fasciatus
''Trichius fasciatus'', the Eurasian bee beetle, is a beetle species belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae.
Varieties
* ''Trichius fasciatus'' var. ''dubius'' Mulsant
* ''Trichius fasciatus'' var. ''interruptus'' Mulsant
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(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758)
* ''
Trichius gallicus''
Dejean, 1821 (= ''T. rosaceus'')[Krell, F-T. (2012) On nomenclature and synonymy of ''Trichius rosaceus'', ''T. gallicus'', and ''T. zonatus'' (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). ''Zootaxa'' 3278: 61–68.]
* ''
Trichius japonicus''
* ''
Trichius orientalis''
Reitter, 1894
* ''
Trichius sexualis''
Bedel, 1906->
References
External links
Trichius fasciatusphotos at Beetlespace.wz.cz
Cetoniinae
{{Cetoniinae-stub