Pachnoda
Encyclopedia
Pachnoda is a genus from the subfamily Cetoniinae with nearly all the of species living in Africa
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The limit of the genus is given by the presence of internal lobes in their aedeagi
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
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The limit of the genus is given by the presence of internal lobes in their aedeagi
Aedeagus
An aedeagus is a reproductive organ of male insects through which they secrete sperm from the testes during copulation with a female insect...
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Most common species
- Pachnoda marginataPachnoda marginataPachnoda marginata is a beetle from the subfamily Cetoniinae with a large number of subspecies that lives in west and central Africa. They are sometimes used as food for terrarium animals...
(Drury, 1773) - Pachnoda sinuataPachnoda sinuataPachnoda sinuata, the garden fruit chafer or brown-and-yellow fruit chafer, is a species of beetle found in Africa from the Congo basin southwards.-Identification:...
(Fabricius, 1775)
Most recently described species or status change
- Pachnoda antoinei Beinhundner, 2006
- Pachnoda babaulti Bourgoin, 1921, bona species, decision by (Ph.) Antoine in 2004, ColéoptèresColéoptèresColéoptères is a French-language scientific journal of entomology.- History :Following the cessation of publication of the Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat in 1995, there was a major need of entomologists for a journal that could publish descriptions of new species of insects very rapidly, and...
, 10(2). - Pachnoda cervenkai Krajcik, 2002
- Pachnoda chireyi Legrand, 1993
- Pachnoda lerui Rigout, 1989
- Pachnoda madgei Rigout, 1995
- Pachnoda wernei Beinhundner, 1993