Plaesiorrhina is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.
Taxonomy The genus was originally named Plaesiorrhina by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attributed the name to Hermann Burmeister,Westwood, 1842 (excerpt): "Illustrations of some species of Cetoniidae from Madagascar" p. 126 but Burmeister had not yet published it, his own use of the name not appearing in print until November or December of the same year.Bousquet, Y. (2016) Litteratura Coleopterologica (1758–1900): a guide to selected books related to the taxonomy of Coleoptera with publication dates and notes. ZooKeys 583: 1-776. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.583.7084 Westwood thereby became the author of the name, and Burmeister's later-published name was a junior homonym,Krikken, J. (1984) A new key to the suprageneric taxa in the beetle family Cetoniidae, with annotated lists of the known genera. Zoologische verhandelingen 210: 1–75. and accordingly took the next available name, Chondrorrhina, published by Gustav Kraatz in 1880. As the type species of Westwood's Plaesiorrhina was different from the type species of Burmeister's genus of the same name, and Burmeister's original taxon had a different type species from Kraatz', Burmeister's Plaesiorrhina was reduced to a subgenus and renamed as Plaesiorrhinella by Jan Krikken in 1984. In that same 1842 publication, Burmeister published the name Bothrorrhina for the same taxon that Westwood had called Plaesiorrhina, with the same type species, thereby making Bothrorrhina a junior objective synonym of the earlier-published name.
Species Plaesiorrhina ochreata (Gory & Percheron, 1835) Plaesiorrhina perrieri (Pouillaude, 1914) Plaesiorrhina radama (Künchel, 1887) Plaesiorrhina reflexa (Gory & Percheron, 1835) Plaesiorrhina rolandi (Peyrieras & Arnaud, 2000) Plaesiorrhina rufonasuta (Fairmaire, 1902) Plaesiorrhina ruteri (de Lisle, 1953)
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