{{short description|Genus of beetles}} {{distinguish|text=Cotinus, a genus of flowering plant}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Green fruit beetle geranium closeup.jpg | image_caption = ''Cotinis mutabilis'', the figeater beetle | taxon = Cotinis | authority = Burmeister, 1842 | synonyms = *''Latemnis'' <small>Thomson, 1880</small> *''Cotinorrhina'' <small>Schoch, 1895</small> }}
'''''Cotinis''''' is a genus of scarab beetles in the subfamily Cetoniinae found throughout North and South America. At least two species (''Cotinis mutabilis'' and ''Cotinis nitida'') are common pests.<ref name="digcommons">{{cite web | url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1578&context=insectamundi | title=The genus ''Cotinis'' Burmeister in the eastern United States, with description of a new species from the Florida Keys, including a checklist of the genus | publisher=DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln | work=Insecta Mundi | date=December 5, 2008 | accessdate=2013-06-16 | author=Woodruff, Robert | page=9}}</ref> The genus was erected by Hermann Burmeister in 1842.
==Species== The genus contains the following species:<ref name="eol">{{cite web | url=http://eol.org/pages/17223/overview | title=Cotinis | publisher=Encyclopedia of Life | accessdate=2013-06-11}}</ref>
*''Cotinis aliena'' <small>Woodruff, 2008</small> *''Cotinis antonii'' <small>(Dugés, 1878)</small> *''Cotinis barthelemyi'' <small>(Gory & Percheron, 1833)</small> *''Cotinis beraudi'' <small>Delgado, 1998</small> *''Cotinis boylei'' <small>Goodrich, 1966</small> *''Cotinis columbica'' <small>Burmeister, 1842</small> *''Cotinis fuscopicea'' <small>Goodrich, 1966</small> *''Cotinis ibarrai'' <small>Deloya & Ratcliffe, 1988</small> *''Cotinis impia'' <small>(Fall, 1905)</small> *''Cotinis laticornis'' <small>Bates, 1889</small> *''Cotinis lebasi'' <small>(Gory & Percheron, 1833)</small> *''Cotinis lemoulti'' <small>Antoine, 2007</small> *''Cotinis mutabilis'' <small>(Gory & Percheron, 1833)</small> *''Cotinis nitida'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small> *''Cotinis olivia'' <small>Bates, 1889</small> *''Cotinis orientalis'' <small>Deloya & Ratcliffe, 1988</small> *''Cotinis pauperula'' <small>Burmeister, 1847</small> *''Cotinis polita'' <small>Janson, 1876</small> *''Cotinis pokornyi'' <small>Deloya, Ibáñez-Bernal, & Nogueira, 2000</small> *''Cotinis producta'' <small>Bates, 1889</small> *''Cotinis pueblensis'' <small>Bates, 1889</small> *''Cotinis punctatostriata'' <small>Bates, 1889</small> *''Cotinis rufipennis'' <small>Bates, 1889</small> *''Cotinis sinitoc'' <small>Deloya, Ibáñez-Bernal, & Nogueira, 2000</small> *''Cotinis sphyracera'' <small>Deloya & Ratcliffe, 1988</small> *''Cotinis subviolacea'' <small>(Gory & Percheron, 1833)</small> *''Cotinis viridicyanea'' <small>(Perbosc, 1839)</small>
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Category:Scarabaeidae genera Category:Cetoniinae Category:Taxa named by Hermann Burmeister