Cetonia aurata: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Cetonia aurata lives – recorded in 20 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Cetonia aurata
Group	Beetles
Found in	20 countries
Continents	Europe
Class	Insect
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Scarabaeidae

Where does the Cetonia aurata live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Cetonia aurata in 20 countries and territories across Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What kind of animal is the Cetonia aurata?

The Cetonia aurata (Cetonia aurata) is an insect in the order Coleoptera and the family Scarabaeidae, genus Cetonia. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Cetonia aurata

Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3⁄4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum. The scutellum is the small V-shaped area between the wing cases; it may show several small, irregular, white lines and marks. The underside of the beetle has a coppery colour, and its upper side is sometimes bronze, copper, violet, blue/black, or grey.

Cetonia aurata should not be confused with the North American rose chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus, or with the rarely seen noble chafer, Gnorimus nobilis, which is very similar to the rose chafer. One way to identify Cetonia aurata is to look at its scutellum; on the noble chafer the scutellum is an equilateral triangle, but on the rose chafer it is an isosceles triangle.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Cetonia aurata (revision 1360099521), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q731970 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).