Bombodes

{{Short description|Genus of insects}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Bombodes westwoodi Nicolet.png

| image_caption= B. westwoodi

| taxon = Bombodes

| authority = Westwood, 1848

| type_species = Bombodes ursus

| type_species_authority = Westwood, 1848.

}}

Bombodes is a genus of flower chafers. They are characterized by a bumble-bee like patterning in black and yellow with hairy covering over their bodies. About species are known all from along the Himalayan ranges and surrounding regions.{{cite journal|author=Krikken, J. |year=1977|title= The Asian genus Pleuronota Kraatz and allied forms: a clarification (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae).|journal= Zoologische Mededelingen|volume= 51|issue=13|pages= 199–209|url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/318440/}}

Species that have been described in the genus include:{{cite journal|author1=Huang H. |author2= Chen CH.-CH. |year=2015|title= Description of a new species of the genus Bombodes Westwood, 1848 from SE Tibet, China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Taenioderini).|journal= Anima.X |volume=68|pages= 1–10}}

• Bombodes alinae {{small|Jakl & Hava, 2020}}{{cite journal|author1=Jakl, Stanislav |author2=Hava, Jiri |title=A contribution to knowledge of Bombodes Westwood, 1848 with the description of a new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Taenioderini)|url=https://sar.fld.czu.cz/cache/article-data/SaR/Published_volumes/2020-1/133-140_jakl_3.pdf|journal=Studies and Reports. Taxonomical Series |volume=16 |issue=1|pages= 133–139|year= 2020}}
• Bombodes tangi {{small|Huang & Chen, 2015}}
• Bombodes westwoodi {{small|Thomson, 1857}}
• Bombodes ursus {{small|Westwood, 1848}}
• Bombodes dejeani {{small|Pouillaude, 1914}}
• Bombodes vitalisi {{small|Bourgoin, 1914}}
• (possibly synonymous) Bombodes affinis {{small|Bourgoin, 1917}}
• Bombodes nigellus {{small|Bourgoin, 1916}}
• Bombodes klapperichi {{small|Schein, 1953}}