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Species Pachybrachis hepaticus

Pachybrachis? - Pachybrachis hepaticus Beetle - Pachybrachis hepaticus Pachybrachis hepaticus? - Pachybrachis hepaticus Pachybrachis hepaticus? - Pachybrachis hepaticus P. hepaticus ? - Pachybrachis hepaticus Pachybrachis - Pachybrachis hepaticus Cryptocephalinae? - Pachybrachis hepaticus Pachybrachis hepaticus? - Pachybrachis hepaticus
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)
Species hepaticus (Pachybrachis hepaticus)
Other Common Names
'Liver-spotted Pachy'
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pachybrachis hepaticus (Melsheimer)
Orig. Comb: Cryptocephalus hepaticus F. E. Melsheimer 1847
Further investigation may require that a new genus is established for the eastern and western subspecies of hepaticus. (1)
Explanation of Names
hepat (G). 'the liver' (2)
Numbers
2nd subspp., Cryptocephalus hepaticus heteroderus Fall, occurs in AZ
Size
Length 1.9-3.4 mm.
Ave. length 2.5 mm. (Fall 1915)
Identification

Det. E. G. Riley, 2012
Range
e. US to CA, but most common in west. (CA-FL-ME-ID) / Mex. to C. Amer. - Map (3)(1)(4)
per Fall(5), this is "[t]he most widely distributed species in our fauna." but note, it's not the most common sp...
Food
Reported from Fabaceae, Juncaceae, Salicaceae, Tamaricaceae, Asteraceae, and Euphorbiaceae (6)
Print References
Fall, H.C. 1915. A revision of the North American species of Pachybrachys. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 41: 291–486. (5)
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.
Works Cited
1.Pachybrachis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae) of eastern Canada
Barney et al. 2013. ZooKeys 332: 95–175.
2.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
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.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 .
6.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.