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title: "Copper Chafer"
description: "Protaetia cuprea — Insects & spiders. Protaetia cuprea, also known as the copper chafer, is a species of chafer in the family Scarabaeidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/copper-chafer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Copper Chafer

> Protaetia cuprea — Insects & spiders. Protaetia cuprea, also known as the copper chafer, is a species of chafer in the family Scarabaeidae.

- Scientific name: *Protaetia cuprea*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 15805
- Wikidata: [Q1223686](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1223686)
- iNaturalist taxon: [360024](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/360024)

## Names

- en: Copper Chafer
- de: Kupfer-Rosenkäfer
- fr: Cétoine cuivrée

## Countries with the most observations

RU (1932), DE (1873), FR (1367), IT (1279), AT (1000), CZ (783), FI (723), DK (652), ES (610), PL (448), IL (409), GR (330)

## Summary

Protaetia cuprea, also known as the copper chafer, is a species of chafer in the family Scarabaeidae. This species is also known as the rose chafer and has a wide geographic distribution, extending from Canary Islands, Portugal, and Spain to the east towards Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, Mongolia, and North China. This species forages for pollen from flowers and fruits, such as apples, from trees. However, since fruit is scarce in the spring and winter, they only transition from a diet of pollen to a diet of fruits in the summer. Since pollen is richer in proteins and lipids than carbohydrates, while fruit…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protaetia_cuprea

## Photo

![Copper Chafer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/copper-chafer/medium.jpg)

Photo: uusijani · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85084856

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/copper-chafer?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).