Lomaptera

Lomaptera
Lomaptera bicolorata Moser, 1912
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Cetoniinae
Genus: Lomaptera
Gory & Percheron, 1833
Type species
Cetonia papua

Lomaptera are beetles from the subfamily Cetoniinae, tribe Schizorhinini. The genus was created by Gory & Percheron, in 1833. The type species of the genus is Cetonia papua Guérin-Méneville, 1830. These cetoniids have the tip of the scutellum invisible, which makes the difference with the genus Ischiopsopha.

The genus is spread throughout the whole Australian region.

Species

The details of the paramers have been published in the volume 25 of The Beetles of the World, together with many distribution maps.

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