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Trichiotinus
Trichiotinus affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Cetoniinae
Tribe:	Trichiini
Genus:	Trichiotinus

Trichiotinus is a genus of fruit and flower chafers in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about 8 described species in Trichiotinus, all native to the New World.

Species

• Trichiotinus affinis (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
• Trichiotinus assimilis (Kirby, 1837) (hairy flower scarab)
• Trichiotinus bibens (Fabricius, 1775)
• Trichiotinus lunulatus (Fabricius, 1775) (emerald flower scarab)
• Trichiotinus piger (Fabricius, 1775) (bee-like flower scarab)
• Trichiotinus rufobrunneus (Casey, 1914)
• Trichiotinus texanus (Horn, 1876) (Texas flower scarab)
• Trichiotinus viridans (Kirby, 1837)

References

1. "Trichiotinus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Trichiotinus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2006). "OPINION 2162 (Case 3314): Stegopterus Burmeister and Schaum, 1840 and Trichiotinus Casey, 1915 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): conserved". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 63, part 4, 278–279.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Trichiotinus
• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

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