species: stehelini Schaum 1841
remark: My friend Daniel call them "cockroaches of Addis cetonid fauna"
wild habitat: Acacia woodland species
origin: Ethiopia, near Bedele, 4/2002 + 5/2003, leg. Petr Malec
wild imago size: 17-24 mm
breeding difficulty: usually easy
species: abyssinica Blanchard 1842
remark: big sized attractive Pachnoda
wild habitat: Acacia woodland species, often cohabit with P.stehelini
origin: Ethiopia, near Bedele, 4/2002 + 5/2003, leg. Petr Malec
wild imago size: 22-26 mm
breeding difficulty: very easy for larval and cocoon stage, very hard to make adults oviposit
species: massajae Gestro 1881
remark: together with sp.abyssinica and sp.werneri create complex of very related and morphologically similiar species
wild habitat: Acacia woodland species
origin: Ethiopia, near Asbe Teferi, 5/2008, leg. Petr Malec ex larvae
wild imago size: 24-28 mm
breeding difficulty: very easy for larval and cocoon stage, in my breeding impossible to make adults oviposit
species: werneri Gestro 1881
remark: together with sp.abyssinica and sp.massajae create complex of very related and morphologically similiar species
wild habitat: Acacia woodland species
origin: Ethiopia, near Arba Minch, 5/2008, leg. Petr Malec ex larvae
wild imago size: 24-28 mm
breeding difficulty: very easy for larval and cocoon stage, in my breeding impossible to make adults oviposit
species: interrupta Olivier 1789
remark: small sized Pachnoda, known to be pest on agriculture plants
wild habitat: common species of tropical african bush
origin: Senegal
wild imago size: 12-15 mm
breeding difficulty: medium difficulty, larvae decease is frequent, species with decreasing oviposition tendency in breedings
species: calceata?
remark: I´m unable to identify this species of which only one female was found giving me one larvae later turning into the female
wild habitat: found on Acacia sp.
origin: Ethiopia, Sof´Omar, 4/2003, leg. Petr Malec
wild imago size: 23 mm
breeding difficulty: probably easy
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