page_title: Flower chafer
section_title: Tribus Taenioderini
hierarchical_section_title: Flower chafer / Systematics and taxonomy / Tribus Taenioderini
caption_attribution_description: English: Specimen of Gnorimella maculosa (Knoch), an uncommon scarab beetle. This individual was collected in USA: Connecticut: Middlesex County: Killingworth, in a vane trap baited with 50% ethanol, the trap hung 5 m up a tree at the edge of mixed woods (red maple, poplar, juniper et al.) beside a blueberry patch and hayfield, 17-May to 02-Jun-2002, collector M.K. Oliver, in collection of same. This individual, one of three from the same trap effort, has particularly prominent yellow spotting on the pronotum and a solid yellow pygidium.
context_page_description: Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles, comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae. Many species are diurnal and visit flowers for pollen and nectar, or to browse on the petals. Some species also feed on fruit. The group is also called fruit and flower chafers, flower beetles and flower scarabs. There are around 4,000 species, many of them still undescribed.
context_section_description: Anocoela Moser, 1914
  Bacchusia Mikšic, 1976
  Bombodes Westwood, 1848
  Carneluttia Mikšic, 1976
  Chalcothea Burmeister, 1842
  Chalcotheomima Mikšic, 1970
  Clerota Burmeister, 1842
  Coilodera Hope, 1831
  Costinota Schürhoff, 1933
  Eumacronota Mikšic, 1976
  Euremina Wallace, 1867
  Euselates Thomson, 1880
  Glyptothea Bates, 1889
  Glyptotheomima Mikšic, 1976
  Gnorimidia van Lansberge, 1887
  Hemichalcothea Mikšic, 1970
  Ixorida Thomson, 1880 
  Mecinonota Kraatz, 1892
  Oncosterna Thomson, 1880
  Pseudomecinonota Miksic, 1972
  Macronotops Krikken, 1977
  Meroloba Thomson, 1880
  Microchalcothea Moser, 1910
  Penthima Kraatz, 1892
  Plectrone Wallace, 1867
  Pleuronota Kraatz, 1892
  Pseudochalcothea Ritsema, 1882
  Taeniodera Burmeister, 1842
  Xenoloba Bates, 1889
caption: Gnorimella maculosa
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