Green metalic beetle

comfy · #1 (**permalink**) 05-06-2011, 01:19 PM

Can any one identify this beetle we saw on a cliff walk in Sark?

Thanks,

Comfy

SPIKEYHEDGEHOG · #2 (**permalink**) 05-06-2011, 01:51 PM

According to a BBC site :

BBC News

Very pretty!

Keeno · #3 (**permalink**) 05-06-2011, 01:59 PM

i think this is a rose chafer. we get loads in our garden and they buzz about like daft old noisy things bumping into everything.
I think the noble chafer is much rarer and has a equilateral triangle at the top of it's wing cases
whereas the rose chafer has a longer triangle

(all found out when I thought i'd seen a noble one, as they're very rare apparently)

gbvnh1 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-06-2011, 02:21 PM

Agreed - a rose chafer. A noble chafer has a more defined waist between the thorax and abdomen.

Still a great find!!!

SPIKEYHEDGEHOG · #5 (**permalink**) 05-06-2011, 02:35 PM

ooops

Thanks for putting me right.

Klaas Reißmann · #6 (**permalink**) 05-06-2011, 07:49 PM

Good evening everybody,

Cetonia aurata (rose chafer) should be right, but there is a very small possibility for an aberration of Protaetia (cuprea) metallica if this one occurs in the UK. What I want to say is, that we would need this photo much more detailed. I would need to see the knees of the beetle to be sure.

Regards
Klaas