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Adult of Protaetia niveoguttata Janson, 1876 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) which was discovered crawling on the tiled floor of a farmland house, near Kanthalarak, Sisaket Province, Thailand on 1 July 2020. (Photo: B. Sommung). Other papers of ours concerning Scarabaeidae of Thailand are as follows: Hawkeswood & Sommung (2016)(Oryctes), Sommung & Hawkeswood (2017a)(Protaetia), Sommung & Hawkeswood (2017b)(Heterorrhina), Hawkeswood & Sommung (2017)(Xylotrupes) and Hawkeswood, Sommung & Sommung (2018a)(Anomala) and Hawkeswood, Sommung & Sommung (2018c)(Glycyphana). Additionally, we have more recently provided a new record of Bolbohamatum (Geotrupidae) for Thailand (Hawkeswood, Sommung & Sommung, 2018b) and a new records of Scarabaeidae from Sisaket Province (Hawkeswood & Sommung, 2019, Hawkeswood, Sommung & Sommung, 2020).
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In this note, we record the first occurrence of the flower chafer (no common name), Protaetia niveoguttata Janson, 1876 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) from the farming district of Kanthalarak, Sisaket Province, north-eastern Thailand. Previous published data on its distribution in Thailand are reviewed. The beetle appears to be noc...
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... flower chafer, Protaetia niveoguttata Janson, 1876 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) ( Fig. 1) is a tropical and a distinctively marked beetle from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand (Ek-Amnuay, 2008). Nothing appears to have been recorded on its biology and host plants, possibly because of its ...
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... the evening of 1 July 2020 [ca.1840 hrs, Thailand time], one of us (BS) observed a single specimen of Protaetia niveoguttata Janson, 1876 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)( Fig. 1) attracted to lights at a residence situated amongst farmland near Kanthalarak, Sisaket Province, north-eastern Thailand. The beetle was photographed in situ on the tiled floor of the house (Fig. 1). No further specimens were ...
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... hrs, Thailand time], one of us (BS) observed a single specimen of Protaetia niveoguttata Janson, 1876 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)( Fig. 1) attracted to lights at a residence situated amongst farmland near Kanthalarak, Sisaket Province, north-eastern Thailand. The beetle was photographed in situ on the tiled floor of the house (Fig. 1). No further specimens were ...
