Chondrorrhina Explained
Chondrorrhina is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally named Plaesiorrhina by Hermann Burmeister in 1842, but this same name had been published several months earlier by John O. Westwood.[1] As Burmeister's name was a junior homonym, it cannot be used, and the next available name for the same genus, Chondrorrhina, was published by Gustav Kraatz in 1880.[1] As the type species of Chondrorrhina (Cetonia abbreviata Fabricius, 1792) was different from the type species of Burmeister's genus (Gnathocera depressa Gory & Percheron, 1833; a synonym of Cetonia recurva Fabricius, 1801), the latter taxon was reduced to a subgenus after being renamed as Plaesiorrhinella by Jan Krikken in 1984.
In 1994, Holm suggested a different set of relationships, proposing that Burmeister's genus was a synonym of Kraatz' genus Pedinorrhina rather than Chondrorrhina, and then placed Chondrorrhina as a subgenus of Pedinorrhina.[2] Under Holm's very restricted definition of Chondrorrhina, the only included species are abbreviata, distincta, picturata, specularis, and trivittata.[2] Subsequent authors (e.g.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]) have not adopted this alternative classification, retaining Chondrorrhina as a genus distinct from Pedinorrhina.
Species
Subgenus Chondrorrhina
- Chondrorrhina abbreviata (Fabricius, 1792) (Africa)
- Chondrorrhina bonnardi Garnier, Flutsch & Rojkoff, 2018 (Tanzania, Zambia)
- Chondrorrhina collinsi (Allard, 1992) (Ethiopia)
- Chondrorrhina distincta (Van De Poll, 1886) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Chondrorrhina inexspectata Camiade, 2015 (Ivory Coast)
- Chondrorrhina mediana (Westwood, 1842) (tropical Africa)
- Chondrorrhina murphyi Garnier, Flutsch & Rojkoff, 2018 (Malawi, Tanzania)
- Chondrorrhina picina (Schauer, 1938) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Chondrorrhina picturata (Harold, 1878) (Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola)
- Chondrorrhina sinuosa Le Gall, 2023 (Cameroon)
- Chondrorrhina specularis (Gerstaecker, 1867) (Kenya, Tanzania)
- Chondrorrhina trivittata (Schaum, 1841)
Subgenus Plaesiorrhinella
Bibliography
- Ruter, G., 1975 Contribution to the biological study of Northern Senegal part 28 coleoptera cetoniidae. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Serie A Sciences Naturelles 37(3): 661-668
- Massouroudin Akoudjin, Jean César, Appolinaire Kombassere. Jérémy Bouyer https://www.academia.edu/3826121/Spatio-temporal_variability_of_fruit_feeding_insects_used_as_ecological_indicators_in_West_Africa Spatio-temporal variability of fruit feeding insects used as ecological indicators in West Africa
- Kraatz G. (1880) Genera nova Cetonidarum, Entomologische Monatsblätter 2:17-30
- Fabricius J.C. (1792) Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species adjectis Synonimis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus, Hafniae. C. G. Proft & fils 1:1-538
- Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database. Schoolmeesters P., 2011-05-30
Notes and References
- Bousquet, Y. (2016) Litteratura Coleopterologica (1758–1900): a guide to selected books related to the taxonomy of Coleoptera with publication dates and notes. ZooKeys 583: 1-776. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.583.7084
- Holm, E. (1994) On the genera of African Cetoniinae 1: The genus Pedinorrhina Kraatz and related taxa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 48(1): 19-29
- Antoine, Ph. (2008) Remarques taxonomique sur le genre Pedinorrhina Kraatz, 1880 (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae). Coléoptères 14(3): 27–42.
- Krajcik, M. (2008) Cetoniidae of the World. Catalogue - Part I. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Animma. x, Supplement: 1-96 + I-XXXVI.
- Camiade, D. (2015) Une nouvelle espece de Chondrorrhina (Plaesiorrhinella) Krikken, 1984 de Cote d'Ivoire (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae). Entomologia Africana 20(1): 17-21.
- Beinhundner, G. (2017) The Cetoniinae of Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Privately published, Euerbach, 1199 pp.
- Garnier, T., Flutsch, G. & Rojkoff, S. (2018). Description de deux nouvelles espèces appartenant au genre Chondrorrhina Kraatz sous-genre Plaesiorrhinella Krikken, 1984 (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae, Cetoniinae, Goliathini). Cetoniimania NS, 13: 17-30.
- Serrano, A. R. M., Capela, R. A., Nunes, T. & Santos, C. Van-Dú-Nem Neto (2020) The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Angola: a descriptive checklist with new records and synonymic notes, Zootaxa 4776: 1-130
