A flower chafer whose adult and larval lives use very different resources. Adults visit fruit and flowers, while the grubs develop within rich, decomposing organic material.
Species profile · Current resident
Pachnoda marginata
Sun beetle
Pachnoda marginata represents the beetles in the current collection. The profile photograph shows several individuals using the same branching structure.
Scientific namePachnoda marginata
FamilyScarabaeidae
Native rangeAfrica
TaxonomyAccepted species
SexMixed colony
In the wild
Natural history.
The patterned wing covers are the obvious feature, but the complete life cycle—from buried grub to active adult—makes a colony especially useful for observation.
This mixed colony is tracked as a group. Adult feeding, substrate condition, larvae, pupation, and emerging beetles can all become part of the public record.
Taxonomy and range
Pachnoda marginata is a scarab beetle in the family Scarabaeidae, commonly called a sun beetle or marginated Congo chafer. GBIF’s backbone taxonomy retains the species under Pachnoda and records the original Drury authorship.
What the record can show
The collection is represented as a colony because the images and future observations concern several beetles and their shared enclosure. Subspecies-level labels are intentionally omitted until the colony’s identification can be documented more precisely.
In my care
In my care.
This Pachnoda marginata colony represents beetles in the current collection. Its group photography and Codex history can document feeding and colony development while the profile expands into life cycle and natural-history research.
From Instagram
Posts & reels.
From the channel
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Introvertebrates on YouTube
The beautiful lives of sun beetles
A longer look at the sun beetles’ life cycle, behaviour, and enclosure.
Personal observations
From the Codex.
Introvertebrates Codex
Current colony · keeper record
A privacy-safe summary of this resident’s time in care, feeding outcomes, molts, and measurements. These are observations from the Introvertebrates collection, not species-wide averages.
Awaiting a privacy-reviewed Codex export. No invented statistics are shown.
Never published here: raw notes, record IDs, seller or breeder details, enclosure identifiers, local file paths, or exact private event dates.
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Sources.
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Pachnoda marginataView the source.