Punctate flower chafer

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. punctata belongs to the tribe Schizorhinini.

Punctate flower chafer
At Swifts Creek, Victoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
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:

• Cetonia punctatum (lapsus)
• Cetonia punctata Donovan, 1805
• Neorrhina punctatum (lapsus)
• Polystigma punctatum (lapsus)
• Polystigma punctata (Donovan, 1805)

External links

Media related to Neorrhina punctatum at Wikimedia Commons