Plaesiorrhina

Plaesiorrhina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Cetoniinae
Tribe:	Goliathini
Subtribe:	Coryphocerina
Genus:	Plaesiorrhina Westwood, 1842
Type species
Cetonia reflexa Gory & Percheron, 1835
Synonyms
Bothrorrhina Burmeister, 1842

Plaesiorrhina is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae, found in Africa.¹

The genus was originally named Plaesiorrhina by John O. Westwood in July of 1842; Westwood attributed the name to Hermann Burmeister,² 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.³ Westwood thereby became the author of the name, and Burmeister's later-published name was a junior homonym,¹ and accordingly took the next available name, Chondrorrhina, published by Gustav Kraatz in 1880.³ 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 1984.¹ 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.¹

• 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)