Bee beetle

Genus of beetles

Bee beetle

Trichius gallicus zonatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Suborder:  | Polyphaga
Infraorder:  | Scarabaeiformia
Family:  | Scarabaeidae
Tribe:  | Trichiini
Subtribe:  | Trichiina
Genus:  | Trichius
Fabricius, 1775
Species

Several, see text

The bee beetles are scarab beetles of the subfamily Cetoniinae.

They have hairy sides of the elytra like their relatives, and the upper sides of the elytra are usually yellow with prominent black blotches which form incomplete bands. This, and the fact that seen from the side they resemble a hairy plump bee, has given them their common name.

## Species

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* Trichius abdominalis Ménétriés, 1832
* Trichius fasciatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Trichius gallicus Dejean, 1821 (= T. rosaceus)[1]
* Trichius japonicus
* Trichius orientalis Reitter, 1894
* Trichius sexualis Bedel, 1906

## References

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1. ^ Krell, F-T. (2012) On nomenclature and synonymy of Trichius rosaceus, T. gallicus, and T. zonatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). Zootaxa 3278: 61–68.

## External links

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Media related to Trichius at Wikimedia Commons

* Trichius fasciatus photos at Beetlespace.wz.cz

Taxon identifiers

Trichius|

* Wikidata: Q15635991
* Wikispecies: Trichius
* BioLib: 8154
* BOLD: 312550
* CoL: 7Z75
* EoL: 17050
* EPPO: 1TRCIG
* Fauna Europaea: 246977
* Fauna Europaea (new): 0ce06f3a-3a7d-47b0-85d0-a99cbf27912b
* GBIF: 1050949
* iNaturalist: 55784
* IRMNG: 1320105
* NBN: NHMSYS0001720421
* NCBI: 465339
* Open Tree of Life: 458447
* Paleobiology Database: 209618
* ZooBank: A223C18E-96E2-472E-8666-932F93B520B0

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