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Cetoniinae
Small beetle
Mountainside
Spotted on Oct 13, 2014
Submitted on Oct 18, 2014
2 Comments
Thank you Michael
It's a scarab of the tribe Valgini (subfamily Cetoniinae, also known as "flower chafers"). There are several genera and something around 100 species in SE-Asia. This may be a species of Dasyvalgus, but I'm not sure how to distinguish the other genera.