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08:38 Sep 21, 2016 |
French to English translations [PRO] Science - Science (general) / Insect names | |||||||
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4 +1 | cetonid beetles / beetles of the Cetoniidae family |
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3 +1 | Cetoniidae/Cetonia |
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Cetoniidae/Cetonia Explanation: Cétonie doré = Cetonia aurata / rose chafer / the green rose chafer Coléoptères = (Coleoptera) Beetle https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleoptera |
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cetonid beetles / beetles of the Cetoniidae family Explanation: I'm suggesting these two alternatives to translate the whole phrase "insectes coléoptères cétonides". "Cétonides" means members of the family Cetoniidae. This is one of 26 families (if I've counted correctly) that make up the superfamily Scarabaeoidea, and the latter in turn is one of about 19 superfamilies in the order Coleoptera, which belongs to the class Insecta. Cenonia is a genus, one of the very many genera that make up the Cetoniidae family. In other words, by no means all cétonides are Cenonia; many belong to other genera. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/9302f77733... Some taxonomists establish a subfamily of Cetoniidae called Cetoniinae, subdivided in turn into various tribes and subtribes. Cetoniinae are called flower chafers in English. The genus Cetonia belongs to this subfamily, along with many other genres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_chafer So you can't use Cetonia here. "Insectes coléoptères" can just be rendered as beetles; basically, the term beetle is synonymous with the order Coleoptera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle You could put Coleoptera instead but I think this would not be in keeping with the rest of the passage, which uses common names. So the correct formal way to say this would be "of the Cetoniidae family" (or "of the family Cetoniidae"). An alternative would be to use the term "cetonid beetles", which used to be used by biologists and sometimes still is: "A number of cetonid beetles have also been ascribed pest status as a result of their diverse feeding habits" This is from Google result for the abstract of the 1994 PhD thesis of a Harvard entomologist, available on request. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/33827167_A_comparat... Here's an older example: "Description of two new Cetonid Beetles from British East Africa", published in 1904: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/2877 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2016-09-21 09:48:42 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- There is a famous though possibly apocryphal story according to which the biologist J. B. S. Haldane, when asked if anything could be concluded about the Creator from a study of creation, replied that He had "an inordinate fondness for beetles", referring to the fact that there were over 300,000 known species (there are no doubt more now). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2016-09-21 10:10:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I didn't give you any evidence that cétonides means Cetoniidae. See here: "Nouveaux Cétonides de l’Angola (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae) Philippe ANTOINE Entomologia Africana 5 (2), 2000 : 20-29" http://www.pprfth-ac.org/edito/?q=content/nouveaux-cetonides... If you look at this reference you'll see that not one of these newly-discovered "cétonides" is from the genus Cetonia. And many apologies for having mistakenly written Cenonia for Cetonia in my answer. Things are confusing enough without getting the name wrong. |
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