Description Cetonia aurata
Deutsch: Goldglänzender Rosenkäfer
English: Rose Chaffer
Esperanto: Cetonio (skarabo, Cetonia aurata) sur floro.
Français : Cétoine dorée
Polski: Kruszczyca złotawka
Português: Escaravelho da espécie Cetonia aurata.
Русский: Золотистая бронзовка
Date 5 August 2007
Source Own work
Author Chrumps https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chrumps
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cetonia-aurata.jpg

Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 mm (¾ in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum. The scutellum is the small V-shaped area between the wing cases; it may show several small, irregular, white lines and marks. The underside of the beetle has a coppery colour, and its upper side is sometimes bronze, copper, violet, blue/black, or grey. Cetonia aurata should not be confused with the North American rose chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus, or with the rarely seen noble chafer, Gnorimus nobilis, which is very similar to the rose chafer. One way to identify Cetonia aurata is to look at its scutellum; on the noble chafer the scutellum is an equilateral triangle, but on the rose chafer it is an isosceles triangle. Order: Coleoptera, Family: Scarabaeidae, Subfamily: Cetoniinae.
Subspecies:
Cetonia aurata aurata
Cetonia aurata pisana
Cetonia aurata sicula