Taurhina
| Taurhina | |
|---|---|
| Taurhina stanleyi from Uganda. Male and female. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Cetoniinae |
| Genus: | Taurhina Burmeister, 1842 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Taurhina is a genus of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. The name is frequently misspelled as Taurrhina following an unjustified spelling change by Kraatz in 1890 [2].
Species
Subgenus Neptunides J. Thomson, 1879
- Taurhina polychrous (Thomson, 1879)
- Taurhina stanleyi (Janson, 1889)
Subgenus Taurhina Burmeister, 1842
- Taurhina longiceps Kolbe, 1892
- Taurhina nireus (Schaum, 1841