Protaetia cuprea

Protaetia cuprea, also known as the copper chafer, is a species of chafer in the family Scarabaeidae.[2] This species is also known as the rose chafer, and has a wide geographic distribution extending from Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain in the west towards Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, Mongolia, and northern China.[3] This species forages for pollen from flowers and fruits, such as apples, from trees. However, since fruit is scarce in the spring and winter, they only transition from a diet of pollen to a diet of fruits in the summer. [4] Since pollen is more rich in proteins and lipids than carbohydrates, and fruit is more rich in carbohydrates, they are able to travel longer when on a fruit diet. This is due to their increased aerobic performance when fueled by carbohydrate rich content.[4]

Protaetia cuprea
Protaetia cuprea ignicollis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Protaetia
Species:
P. cuprea
Binomial name
Protaetia cuprea
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cetonia cuprea Fabricius, 1775
Copper chafer in Israel.

Taxonomy

Protaetia cuprea contains the following subspecies:[1]

  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. adelheid Mitter, 2017
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. alainilerestifi (Montreuil & Legrand, 2010)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. algerica Motschulsky, 1849
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. bourgini Ruter, 1967
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. brancoi Baraud, 1992
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. cuprea
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. daurica (Motschulsky, 1860)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. ferreriesensis (Compte-Sart & Carreras-Torrent, 2013)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. hesperica (Motschulsky, 1849)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. hypocrita (Ragusa, 1905)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. ignicollis (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. ikonomovi (Miksic, 1958)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. levantina (Schatzmayr, 1936)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. mehrabii (Montreuil & Legrand, 2008)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. metallica (Herbst, 1782)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. obscura (Andersch, 1797)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. olivacea (Mulsant, 1842)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. viridiaurata (Fuente, 1897)
  • Protaetia cuprea subsp. volhyniensis (Gory & Percheron, 1833)

References
  1. "Protaetia cuprea". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  2. Citizen science observations for Protaetia cuprea at iNaturalist
  3. Vondráček, Dominik; Fuchsová, Aneta; Ahrens, Dirk; Král, David; Šípek, Petr (2018-02-20). "Phylogeography and DNA-based species delimitation provide insight into the taxonomy of the polymorphic rose chafer Protaetia (Potosia) cuprea species complex (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) in the Western Palearctic". PLOS ONE. 13 (2): e0192349. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1392349V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0192349. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5819786. PMID 29462164.
  4. Urca, Tomer; Levin, Eran; Ribak, Gal (2022). "Metabolic cost of flight and aerobic efficiency in the rose chafer, Protaetia cuprea (Cetoniinae)". Insect Science. 29 (5): 1361–1372. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.13011. ISSN 1672-9609. PMC 9790465. PMID 35142427.


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