The iridescent green Rose Chafer, Catania aurata, on its favoured habitat of a dog rose, rosa canina.

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Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres 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.

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Location: London UK
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