ONe of the reasons i love wandering around Kadoorie Farm in the New Territories is the amazing bio-diversity, so you never know what you may find. Case in point, was this lovely green beetle that we found by the roadside.
This is a Protaetia which is a genus of beetles of the family Scarabeidae, occurring primarily in Asia, and containing over 300 species.
And I am pretty sure that this is Protaetia orientalis.
lets break it down....with a full scientific classification or taxonavigation, as they call it.
Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Cetoniinae
Tribus: Cetoniini
Subtribus: Cetoniina
Genus: Protaetia
Subgenus: Protaetia (Calopotosia)
Species: Protaetia (Calopotosia) orientalis