Polybaphes
Polybaphes is a genus of fruit and flower chafers belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Cetoniinae.
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| Genus: | Polybaphes Kirby, 1827 |
These species can be found in Africa. Beetles of Polybaphes species can fly fast with nearly closed elytra as their elytra have a space (the posthumeral emargination) enabling wing movements.[1] The adults of many species visit flowers in good weather but remains hidden when it is cloudy.
Species
- Polybaphes abyssinica Schurhoff, 1935
- Polybaphes aequinoctialis (Olivier, 1789)
- Polybaphes angustata (Lansberge, 1882)
- Polybaphes balteata (DeGeer, 1778)
- Polybaphes bella (Kraatz, 1883)
- Polybaphes bipunctata (Lansberge, 1882)
- Polybaphes fasciola (Kraatz, 1900)
- Polybaphes nigriceps (Westwood, 1874)
- Polybaphes sanguinolenta (Olivier, 1789)
- Polybaphes scalaris (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
- Polybaphes schoutedeni (Moser, 1910)
- Polybaphes subfasciata (Swederus, 1787)
- Polybaphes tigrina (Arrow, 1909)
- Polybaphes viridana Moser, 1913
- Polybaphes zanzibarica (Raffray, 1877)
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