Protaetia cuprea

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Cetoniinae
Tribus: Cetoniini
Subtribus: Cetoniina
Genus: Protaetia
Subgenus: Potosia
Species: Protaetia (Potosia) cuprea
Subspecies: P. c. bourgini - P. c. brancoi - P. c. cuprea - P. c. daurica - P. c. ignicollis - P. c. lederi - P. c. levantina - P. c. mandli - P. c. metallica - P. c. obscura - P. c. olivacea - P. c. volhyniensis
Name

Protaetia cuprea Fabricius, 1775
Synonyms

Potosia cuprea (Fabricius, 1775)

References

Potosia cuprea (F., 1775) - photo by D.I. Gavryushin
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Protaetia cuprea. [accessed on 27 June 2020]

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Kupfer-Rosenkäfer
suomi: Kuparikuoriainen
עברית: נחושתית הקוצים
magyar: Olajzöld virágbogár

Protaetia cuprea, also known as the copper chafer, is a species of chafer in the family Scarabaeidae.[2]
Taxonomy

Protaetia cuprea contains the following subspecies:[1]

Protaetia cuprea subsp. adelheid Mitter, 2017
Protaetia cuprea subsp. alainilerestifi (Montreuil & Legrand, 2010)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. algerica Motschulsky, 1849
Protaetia cuprea subsp. bourgini Ruter, 1967
Protaetia cuprea subsp. brancoi Baraud, 1992
Protaetia cuprea subsp. cuprea
Protaetia cuprea subsp. daurica (Motschulsky, 1860)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. ferreriesensis (Compte-Sart & Carreras-Torrent, 2013)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. hesperica (Motschulsky, 1849)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. hypocrita (Ragusa, 1905)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. ignicollis (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. ikonomovi (Miksic, 1958)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. levantina (Schatzmayr, 1936)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. mehrabii (Montreuil & Legrand, 2008)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. metallica (Herbst, 1782)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. obscura (Andersch, 1797)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. olivacea (Mulsant, 1842)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. viridiaurata (Fuente, 1897)
Protaetia cuprea subsp. volhyniensis (Gory & Percheron, 1833)

References

"Protaetia cuprea". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
Citizen science observations for Protaetia cuprea at iNaturalist
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