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Photo #43848: Cetonia aurata

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Cetonia aurata

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Base gallery. Upperside. Pinned specimen.

Photo, and identified by: Vasiliy Feoktistov. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 1997-07-20 00:00:00, Russia, Moscow reg., Zheleznodorozhny city. leg. Feoktistov V.I.

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22.09.2015 18:03, Vasiliy Feoktistov

This image shows the main difference between this bronzovok from all other beetles.
Chafer can fly without revealing the elytra, but in order to be able to fly like them and the edges of the elytra arranged special, different from other beetles way by which they "know how" to produce the wings between the elytra and abdomen.

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