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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Cryptocephalini » Pachybrachina » Scriptured Leaf Beetles (Pachybrachis) » Yellow Pachys (Pachybrachis Yellow Pachys) » Pachybrachis pusillus

Species Pachybrachis pusillus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)
Tribe Cryptocephalini
Subtribe Pachybrachina
Genus Pachybrachis (Scriptured Leaf Beetles)
No Taxon (Yellow Pachys)
Species pusillus (Pachybrachis pusillus)
Explanation of Names
Pachybrachis pusillus Bowditch 1909
pusill (L). 'very small' (1)
Size
Length 2.2 to 3 mm (2)
Identification
eyes bulge, nearly touch...
Range
AZ to c. TX / Mex. - Map (3)(2)(4)
Season
Apr-Nov (2)(BG data)
Food
Possibly Mesquite - Prosopis glandulosa (Fabaceae) (5)
Remarks
among the most commonly coll'ed beetle spp. (at UV lights) at Laguna Atascosa NWR, Rio Hondo, Cameron Co., TX (6)
See Also
Note: eyes more separated in this sp.
- Range: Great Plains
Pachybrachis sp.
diversus Fall - SPECIES GROUP
Det. E. G. Riley, 2011

The species most likely to be confused with the present one are diversus, abdominalis [w. N. Amer.] and longus [AZ] but all are quite easily separated by the tabular characters. In addition to the more remote eyes both diversus and abdominalis have the front claws distinctly enlarged in the male and the ocular lines are more conspicuous. (2)
Print References
Bowditch, F.C. 1909. Notes on Pachybrachys and descriptions of new species. Canadian Entomologist 41: 237-244, 285-292, 312-324. (7)
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.A revision of the North American species of Pachybrachys
H. C. Fall. 1915. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. 41, No. 3: 291–486 .
3.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada
Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.
6.Beetle biodiversity response to vegetation restoration of mid-valley riparian woodland in the LRGV of southern Texas.
King, J.E. 2015. Unpublished master's thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station. viii + 218 pp.
7.Notes on Pachybrachys and descriptions of new species.
Bowditch, F.C. 1909. Canadian Entomologist 41: 312-324.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 16 August, 2008 - 8:28am
Last updated 5 December, 2019 - 8:51pm

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