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Genus of beetles

Pachyonychus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Pachyonychus
F. E. Melsheimer, 1847
Species: P. paradoxus
Binomial name
Pachyonychus paradoxus
F. E. Melsheimer, 1847
Synonyms
  • Clarkaltica Weise, 1921

Pachyonychus is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae containing a single described species, P. paradoxus, from the United States.

The name is extremely similar to a different flea beetle, Pachyonychis paradoxa, named in 1860, that occurs on the same host plant.

References

  1. Melsheimer, F.E. (1847). "Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 3: 158–181.
  2. Nadein, K. S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  3. Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8.
Taxon identifiers
Pachyonychus


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