Protaetia aurichalcea

TaxID: 1486032

Basic Information

Protaetia aurichalcea

Flower Chafer Beetle, bébète l'argent

Protaetia aurichalcea is a species of flower-chafer beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Asia. The ground colour of the beetle is bronze with white markings on the elytra. Males have spiny apical elytral angles showing up as a raised ridge along the elytral suture. Like other flower-beetles, adults visit flowers but they are known to sometimes visit beehives and feed on honey and pollen collected.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Scarabaeidae

Protaetia

aurichalcea

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Photos (5 photos)

Protaetia aurichalcea
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(c) Nick Porch@BY-NC
Protaetia aurichalcea
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(c) Karthik@BY-NC
Protaetia aurichalcea
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(c) Girish Gowda@BY-NC
Protaetia aurichalcea
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(c) Rohit Girotra@BY-NC
Protaetia aurichalcea
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(c) Rohit Girotra@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Japan Quarantine pests —

Distribution (8 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Bangladesh Present —
France Present —
Haiti Present —
India Present —
Sri Lanka Present —
Mauritius Present —
Pakistan Present —
Seychelles Present —

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (8 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
POVIS001-25 BOLD:AGT5211 COI-5P 700 India - -
GBMNC61692-20 BOLD:ACQ1613 COI-5P 545 - - -
GBCLS1198-19 BOLD:ACQ1613 COI-5P 650 India - 23.5863, 81.173004
GBCLS071-14 BOLD:ACQ1613 COI-5P 716 India - 23.5863, 81.173004
GBCAB41638-24 BOLD:AGT5211 COI-5P 423 India 2023-08-01 -
GBAAZ12429-24 BOLD:ACQ1613 COI-5P 698 Unrecoverable - -
GBAAZ12428-24 BOLD:ACQ1613 COI-5P 675 Unrecoverable - -
GBAAM32091-25 BOLD:ACQ1613 COI-5P 658 India 2024-08-22 13.482, 78.023

Literature