Changing the erroneous spelling "hebreae" to the correct hebraea.

 
Note the spelling of the species name: hebraea, and not hebreae.     «hebraea» is the Latin adjective for 'Hebrew' -- this refers to the black scribblings on the upperside of this beetle purportedly looking like Hebrew characters. The string of letters "hebreae" has no meaning that I can decipher.
 
The ultimate proof of the original spelling of a scientific name lies in the othography of the original description of the taxon. The basionym here is Cetonia hebraea Olivier, 1789: 89. You can look at that and read it on this page:
→→ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33604645.
 
 
I have traced this spelling error back to Holm (1991b), a revision of the genus Porphyronota. The error was perpetuated in the "Blue Book" (Holm & Marais 1992), which was (and still is) an influential book among both scientists and enthusiasts. This problem was severely aggravated by the hugely popular South African field guide by Picker et al. (2002, 2004, 2019), who coined the vernacular name 'Marbled Fruit Chafer' and perpetuated the erroneous spelling Porphyronota "hebreae".

Whereas I cannot find this particular spelling error earlier than the publication of Holm (1991b), this erroneous spelling subsequently abounds in the peer-reviewed literature, in popular writing, and all over the entire internet (including iSpot and iNaturalist). After 1992 the correct spelling is found only in some of the most scholarly publications, and then certainly not in all of them.

I correct this mistake here.
 
 
REFERENCES

Holm E (1991b) Revision of African Cetoniinae III: Genus Porphyronota Burmeister (including Poecilophila Kolbe) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Cimbebasia 12 [1990]: 111–125 + separate unpaginated colour plate.

Holm E, Marais E (1992) Fruit Chafers of Southern Africa (Scarabaeidae: Cetoniini). Ekogilde, Hartebeespoort, South Africa. 326 pp.

Olivier M (1789) Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs Caractères Génériques et Spécifiques, leur Description, leur Synonymie, et leur Figure Enluminée. Coléoptères. Tome Premier, No. 6. Cétoine. Cetonia. pp. 1–92. Boudouin, Paris. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.49479.

Picker M, Griffiths C, Weaving A (2002). Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. First edition. Struik Publishers, Cape Town. 440 pp.
Picker M, Griffiths C, Weaving A (2004). Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Second edition. Struik Publishers, Cape Town. 444 pp.
Picker M, Griffiths C, Weaving A (2019). Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Third edition. Struik Nature, Cape Town. 527 pp.