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title: "European Rose Chafer"
description: "Cetonia aurata — Insects & spiders. Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3⁄4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/european-rose-chafer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# European Rose Chafer

> Cetonia aurata — Insects & spiders. Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3⁄4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum.

- Scientific name: *Cetonia aurata*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 66816
- Wikidata: [Q731970](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731970)
- iNaturalist taxon: [52402](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52402)

## Names

- en: European Rose Chafer
- de: Goldglänzender Rosenkäfer
- fr: Cétoine dorée
- nl: Gouden tor
- pl: Kruszczyca złotawka

## Countries with the most observations

DE (9857), RU (8472), FR (8119), AT (4403), IT (4233), GB (3468), UA (3106), DK (2366), CZ (2321), PL (2081), FI (1654), CH (1312)

## Summary

Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3⁄4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum. The scutellum is the small V-shaped area between the wing cases; it may show several small, irregular, white lines and marks. The underside of the beetle has a coppery colour, and its upper side is sometimes bronze, copper, violet, blue/black, or grey.
Cetonia aurata should not be confused with the North American rose chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus, or with the rarely seen noble chafer, Gnorimus nobilis, which is very similar…

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

## Photo

![European Rose Chafer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/european-rose-chafer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ruebezahl · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287960740

## Machine access

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