#3235 · 🪲 beetles

European Rose Chafer

🇳🇱 Gouden tor ·Cetonia aurata

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Izabella Farr · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Francis Forlivesi · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Izabella Farr · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © magzau · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Михаил Кривошеев / Mikhail Krivosheev · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Apeldoorn West, Apeldoorn, Netherlands:© Linda · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 6562 XA Groesbeek, Nederland:© jeewee · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 6573 CS Beek-Ubbergen, Nederland:© gijskurstjens · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Rheden, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cetonia aurata , called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer , is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3⁄4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum. The scutellum is the small V-shaped area between the wing cases; it may show several small, irregular, white lines and marks. The underside of the beetle has a coppery colour, and its upper side is sometimes bronze, copper, violet, blue/black, or grey.

base stats

NL sightings 146iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 67,252iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).