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Lomaptera
Sign in to saveLomaptera are beetles from the subfamily Cetoniinae, tribe Schizorhinini. The genus was created by Gory & Percheron, in 1833. The type species of the genus is Cetonia papua Guérin-Méneville, 1830. These cetoniids have the tip of the scutellum invisible, which makes the difference with the genus Ischiopsopha.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 49
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, TAMU, QM
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Australia, N. Guinea
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cetoniidae
- Image
- Lomaptera-hoyoisi.jpg
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Lomaptera are beetles from the subfamily Cetoniinae, tribe Schizorhinini. The genus was created by Gory & Percheron, in 1833. The type species of the genus is Cetonia papua Guérin-Méneville, 1830. These cetoniids have the tip of the scutellum invisible, which makes the difference with the genus Ischiopsopha.
The genus is spread throughout the whole Australian region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lomaptera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.