Cetonia aurata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common names

🇬🇧 Rose Chafer
🇫🇷 Cétoine dorée, Hanneton des roses

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Cetoniinae
Tribe: Cetoniini
Genus: Cetonia
Species: Cetonia aurata

Presence

Present.

Photographs

img/cetonia-aurata.webp — Cetonia aurata foraging on a flower of Viburnum lantana

img/cetonia-aurata-2.webp — Cetonia aurata sitting on a flower of Valeriana officinalis