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Shining Leaf Chafers
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Shining Leaf Chafers

Rutelinae

Rutelinae or shining leaf chafers is a subfamily of the scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae). It is a very diverse group; distributed over most of the world, it contains some 200 genera with over 4,000 described species in 7 tribes. Several taxa have yet to be described. A few recent classifications include the tribe Hopliini, but this is not generally accepted.

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7 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Anomalini

tribeAnomalini

Rutelini

tribeRutelini

Anoplognathini

tribeAnoplognathini

Adoretini

tribeAdoretini

Geniatini

tribeGeniatini

Anatistini

tribeAnatistini

Alvarengiini

tribeAlvarengiini

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48857.