The bee beetles are scarab beetles of the subfamily Cetoniinae.
| Bee beetle | |
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| Trichius gallicus zonatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Tribe: | Trichiini |
| Subtribe: | Trichiina |
| Genus: | Trichius Fabricius, 1775 |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
They have hairy sides of the elytra 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
edit- Trichius abdominalis Ménétriés, 1832
- Trichius fasciatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Trichius gallicus Dejean, 1821 (= T. rosaceus)[1]
- Trichius japonicus
- Trichius orientalis Reitter, 1894
- Trichius sexualis Bedel, 1906
References
edit- ^ Krell, F-T. (2012) On nomenclature and synonymy of Trichius rosaceus, T. gallicus, and T. zonatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). Zootaxa 3278: 61–68.
External links
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Media related to Trichius at Wikimedia Commons
- Trichius fasciatus photos at Beetlespace.wz.cz