Talk:Figeater beetle

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[edit] Some hints

Methinks the genus for this animal is Cotinis. Cotinus seems to be a plant (a smoke tree). Try a search for "cotinus" on ITIS!

The subfamily is Cetoniinae Leach 1815 [1], [2].

Tribe: probably Cetoniini

Common names are not unique, there may be several species going by the same common name. The Green june beetle is Cotinis nitida [3]. It is quite possible that there are several species that have similar characteristics. (See Cockchafer, which covers three species that are all very much alike.)

Consider making this an article on the genus Cotinis, subsuming all the Cotinis spp. Having one article for each and every species is probably too much. Alternatively, restrict the article only to the North-American species, like I did with Melolontha in Cockchafer, where I explicitly cover only the European species. Some of the species listed below live in Middle and South America only.

Partial list of species (from [4]):

  • Cotinis abdominalis Casey 1915
  • Cotinis columbica (Burmeister, 1842)
  • Cotinis impia (Fall) 1905
  • Cotinis mutabilis (Gory & Percheron) 1883
  • Cotinis nitida (Linnaeus) 1764
  • Cotinis orientalis
  • Cotinis pauperula Burmeister 1847
  • Cotinis punctatostriata Bates 1889
  • Cotinis subviolacea (Gory & Percheron) 1833

[5] gives one more, C. nubilalis.

From [6] we get C. boylei Goodrich 1966. The genus Cotinis is due to Burmeister 1842. And [7] gives C. fuscopicea Goodrich and C. lebasi (Gory & Percheron). A search through the collections at [8] for the genus Cotinis yields a few additional ones: C. antonii Dugés; C. laticornis Bates; C. olivia Bates; C. pueblensis Bates; C. viridicyanea Perbosc; and C. polita (Janson).

[9] gives C. cavifrons Burmeister 1842 and the subspecies C. erythropus morelettii Blanchard 1850, but these two seem to have been reassigned to the genus Amithao Thomson 1878.

On C. mutabilis, there is public domain info in BISON (New Mexico) at [10].

Finally, why not ask a real expert and e-mail Brett Ratcliffe [11]?

Lupo 09:01, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Every species deserves a page

I disagree with the above idea to make this a page covering the entire Cotinis genus. A separate Cotinis overview page might not be a bad idea, though.Brian8710 23:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC)