A scarab beetle sits on a white background. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a mask-like black marking on the thorax.

A scarab beetle sits on a white background. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a mask-like black marking on the thorax.

A scarab beetle sits on a white background. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a mask-like black marking on the thorax.

A scarab beetle sits on a white background, facing away from the viewer. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a smile-like black marking on the plate covering the tip of the abdomen.

What a beautiful flower scarab...found right here in N. Carolina! Meet Gnorimella maculosa, the only species in the genus here in the US. [size: ~1/2"]

Thanks to Wilson Laney for collecting/bringing it to me! [Apparently it's not often seen; I had not heard of it]
#Scarabaeidae: #Cetoniinae

Habitus of Quititinus nevermanni (lectotype of Genuchinus nevermanni, male, Costa Rica, San José; MFNB). A) Dorsal view, B) Ventral view, C) Dorsolateral view, D) Lateral view. Scale bars = 1 mm.

#LiteratureNotice Rodrigues et al. A New Combination in Quititinus Rodrigues, Grossi, and Vaz-de-Mello ( #Coleoptera: #Scarabaeidae: #Cetoniinae: Cremastocheilini) from Central America doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #Taxonomy #FlowerChafers

Trichius fasciatus visiting flowers of Apiaceae at Lake Pecineagu, on the upper Dâmboviţa River, Romania (photo credit: Alexandru Iftime).

#LiteratureNotice Drăghici et al. A Reassessment of the Genus Trichius Fabricius, 1775 ( #Coleoptera: #Scarabaeidae: #Cetoniinae) in Romania doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #Taxonomy

#LiteratureNotice Moreno et al. Description of the larvae and pupa of Cotinis lebasi (Gory & Percheron, 1833) and Hoplopyga foeda (Schaum, 1848) ( #Coleoptera: #Scarabaeidae: #Cetoniinae) from Colombia doi.org/10.12976/jib... #Beetle #Beetles #FlowerChafers #ScarabBeetles #Taxonomy

#LiteratureNotice Hernández et al. Diversity of #Cetoniinae Beetles in a Semiurban Area of Western Mexico. doi.org/10.3958/059.... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #FloweChafers

#LiteratureNotice Bin-Hong & Yi-Chia. Notes on a Credible Record of the Flower Chafer Anthracophora (Poecilophilides) rusticola Burmeister, 1842 (#Coleoptera: #Scarabaeidae: #Cetoniinae) in Taiwan. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #NewRecords