Pachyonychis

Pachyonychis is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae containing a single described species, P. paradoxa, from the United States.[2]

Pachyonychis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Pachyonychis
H. Clark, 1860[1]
Species:
P. paradoxa
Binomial name
Pachyonychis paradoxa
H. Clark, 1860
Synonyms
  • Pachyonychus Crotch, 1873 (Missp.)
  • Hamletia Crotch, 1873
  • Hamletia dimidiaticornis Crotch, 1873

The name is extremely similar to a different flea beetle, Pachyonychus paradoxus, named in 1847, that occurs on the same host plant; Crotch, in 1873, erroneously thought that Clark's name was spelled the same as the other species, and replaced Clark's name.[3]

References
  1. Clark, H. (1860). "Catalogue of Halticidae in the collection of the British Museum, Physapodes and Oedipodes. Part I". London: The Trustees: 61. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  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.


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