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Flower Beetles (Cetoniinae subfamily) is a group of scarab beetles that typically feed as adults on flowers of various plants. Many of the species are very beautifully colored. Although there are a few interesting species in this subfamily found in the New World, the vast majority of the large and colorful species are found in Africa and the Indo-Australian regions. Kaoru Sakai estimates that there are about 3,200 known species of flower beetles.

Scarab Beetles, family Scarabaeidae, are worldwide in distribution. They usually have a small club-like antennae. For ease in information retrieval, the subfamilies of this extremely large family are treated herein as a separate families.

Scarab Family of Beetles has been arbitrarily divided here into the following groups:

Cetoniinae Subfamily - Flower Beetles
Dynastinae Subfamily - Rhino or Horned Beetles
Scarabaeinae Subfamily - Dung Beetles and related
Melolinthinae Subfamily - June beetles and related
Ruteliinae, etc. - Rest of the scarabs

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