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Chrysina gloriosa

Chrysina gloriosa
Chrysina gloriosa overhead.jpeg
Chrysina gloriosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Chrysina
Species: C. gloriosa
Binomial name
Chrysina gloriosa
(LeConte, 1854)
Synonyms

Plusiotis gloriosa


Plusiotis gloriosa

Chrysina gloriosa is a species of scarab whose common names are glorious beetle and glorious scarab. The adults are 25 to 28 millimetres (0.98 to 1.10 in) long and are bright green with silver stripes on the elytra. The adults eat juniper leaves at a high elevation and are able to camouflage by blending in with plants. The species is sometimes incorrectly thought to be endangered, but has never been listed either in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species or under the United States Endangered Species Act. An invalid synonym used to be Plusiotis gloriosa.


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