Punctate flower chafer
At Swifts Creek, Victoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Neorrhina
Species:	N. punctata
Binomial name
Neorrhina punctata ( Donovan, 1805)
Synonyms
Numerous, see text

The punctate flower chafer or spotted flower chafer, Neorrhina punctata, is a species of flower chafer. The chafers are beetles of subfamily Cetoniinae in the large scarab beetle family ( Scarabaeidae). Among the chafers, N. punctatum belongs to the tribe Schizorhinini.

This beetle occurs in eastern mainland Australia, from Victoria, through New South Wales to northern Queensland. ^[1]

It is also known under several other scientific names, but these are obsolete or misspelled:

• Cetonia punctatum ( lapsus)
• Cetonia punctata Donovan, 1805
• Neorrhina punctatum (lapsus)
• Polystigma punctatum (lapsus)
• Polystigma punctata (Donovan, 1805)

External links

Media related to Neorrhina punctatum at Wikimedia Commons

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