Despite is far beyond ambitions of this website few words about taxonomy of this group are necessary to say. Four genera are expected to be treated in this section : Dyspilophora Kraatz, Chondrorrhina Kraatz, Pedinorrhina Kraatz, Plaesiorrhinella Krikken and Taeniesthes Kraatz as stated in Milan´s catalogue (Krajcik, 1998). However since then the system has changed. From recent works I´ve seen Holm (1994) synonymized Kraatz´s genera Taeniesthes and Dyspilophora with Chondrorrhina, which was ranked as a subgenus under Pedinorrhina. Moreover Holm synomymized Krikken´s genus Plaesiorrhinella with Pedinorrhina Kraatz. Antoine (2007) reshuffled the system and raised all mentioned Kraatz´s genera from the synonymy with Pedinorrhina putting Dyspilophora, Taeniesthes and Plaesiorrhinella under Chondorrhina with two subgenera recognized : Ch. (Chondrorrhina) Kraatz and Ch. (Plaesiorhrinella) Krikken. Breeding shows evident affinities within all genera of Kraatz, while Krikken´s Plaesiorrhinella are of very different bionomic habits. That´s why I take over the system as bellow. After all I quess only small fragment of breeders visiting my website are interested in taxonomy and also when speaking about coleoptera system what now seems to be reliable - can be entirely different in few years time.

genus: CHONDRORRHINA Kraatz 1880
species: trivittata (Schaum, 1841)
remark: -
wild habitat: common species of eastern african savannah habitats, found on Protaea sp.
origin: Malawi, Lilongwe, 4/2000, leg. Petr Malec
origin2: Zambia, near Mufumbwe, 2/2005, leg. Petr Malec
origin3: Tanzania, Udzungwa Mt., 1/2011, leg. Petr Malec (melanic form)
wild imago size: 16-19 mm
breeding difficulty: medium, oviposition is often the problem

species: collinsi (Allard, 1992)
remark: -
wild habitat: dry Acacia woodland species
origin: Ethiopia, Arba Minch, 5/2008, leg. Petr Malec
wild imago size: 15-17 mm
breeding difficulty: unknown, only one male was found

genus: PEDINORRHINA Kraatz 1880
species: septa (Harold, 1879)
wild habitat: forest species
origin: Cameroon, Mt. Fako, 11/2010, local collector
wild imago size: 16-19 mm
breeding difficulty: medium, oviposition and feeding larvae are the main breeding troubles

species: sellata (Kraatz, 1880)
remark: also considered to be subspecies or variety of species septa
wild habitat: forest species
origin: Uganda, Mpanga forest, 11/2006, leg. Petr Malec
wild imago size: 16-19 mm
breeding difficulty: medium, oviposition and feeding larvae are the main breeding troubles



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