Adults are about 14–16 mm long.
Fine-art photographic collection
Pygora albomaculata
A black Madagascan flower chafer whose white markings behave like fixed coordinates in a taxonomic map.
About this species
Pygora albomaculataKraatz, 1893
Information reviewed15 July 2026
Pygora albomaculata is a small endemic Madagascan flower chafer. Its name means “white-spotted”, and the exact arrangement of pale marks, punctures and body proportions separates it from a large island radiation.
Taxonomy
Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Coleoptera · Scarabaeidae · Cetoniinae · Pygora
Accepted taxon. · checked 2026-07-15
MadagascarBroad range and selected reference localities — not a complete occurrence map.
Madagascar
Forest and forest edge with flowers, fruit and sap.
Day-active adult.
Sugary plant fluids as an adult; decomposing organic material as a larva.
Solitary.
What makes this species remarkable?
The pale spots are not random wear: their number, position and shape form a repeatable coordinate pattern used to separate albomaculata from the island’s many other Pygora.
Madagascar generated more than fifty named Pygora forms from one isolated lineage, yet this beetle remains recognisable by the combined geometry of its white markings, punctures and body proportions.
Paulian’s revision could not identify it from colour alone; the diagnosis stacks the visible spot pattern with pronotal form, pygidial structure and hidden male anatomy, creating a multi-part species lock inside a beetle only about fifteen millimetres long.