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Green rose chafer

Cetonia aurata

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Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum. The pictured beetles were spotted while foraging on a daucus carota flower, in Tzoumerka mountains National park, Epirus region, Greece.

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PublishedAugust 6, 2018

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