Dicronorrhina is a genus of beetle

Beetle

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s belonging to the Scarabaeidae

Scarabaeidae

The family Scarabaeidae as currently defined consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide. The species in this large family are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family is fairly unstable, with numerous competing theories, and new proposals appearing quite...

 family, Cetoniinae subfamily.

Description

The species of the genus Dicronorrhina reach about 40–60 mm (1.6–2.4 ) of length. The basic The basic colour of the body is metallic green, with white stripes in some species. The male has a "T"-shaped, flat horn in the forehead. The larva

Larva

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e live in the soil on decaying vegetal material. The development will take 8-9 months, and the adult beetles can live 3-4 months, so that there is one generation per year.

List of species

There are fourspecies in this genus:

• Dicronorrhina cavifrons Westwood, 1843
• Dicronorrhina derbyana
  Dicronorrhina derbyana
  Dicronorrhina derbyana, common name Derby's Flower Beetle, is a species of beetles belonging to the Scarabaeidae family, Cetoniinae subfamily.-Subspecies:* Dicronorrhina derbyana carnifex Harold, 1878...
  
  Westwood, 1843
• Dicronorrhina kouensis Legrand, Bouyer, Juhel & Camiade, 2006
• Dicronorrhina micans (Drury, 1773)

External links

• Flower Beetles
• Encyclopedia of Life