Anoplognathus aureus, commonly known as the gold Christmas beetle, is a beetle of the family Scarabaeidae native to northern Australia,[1] from northeastern Queensland to northern Western Australia.

[2] English entomologist Charles Owen Waterhouse described the gold Christmas beetle in 1889.

The Reverend Thomas Blackburn described Calloodes frenchi in 1890, from a specimen given to him by Australian entomologist Charles French.

[4] Blackburn described Anoplognathus concinnus in 1900, which turned out to be a red-brown colour variant of this species.

[6] It is found in north Queensland from Cairns and Mossman south to Innisfail, and has been recorded from Broome in Western Australia.