Talk:Rose chafer

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Original page by TerrapinDundee from the http:/www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dmassoc/data/scarab_rose_chafer.htm page with his permission.

Needs further work to tidy and add links and to subdivide into further pages when other species added.

[edit] Date of publication of the name Cetonia aurata

My quick web search revealed two possibilities for Linnaeus' publication of the name Cetonia aurata (possibly in a different genus) - 1758 and 1761. Although 1758 is the commoner of the two in the search results, I am reluctant to believe it, and have therefore written 1761 in the taxobox. The reason for this is that it is all too easy to assume a date of 1758 for Linnaeus' names when no explicit date is given (since the majority of his published names derive from that year) and that therefore a few 1761s carry more weight with me than many more 1758s. If anyone knows for sure either way, please note it here. --Stemonitis 16:16, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)