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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) » Striped Pachys (Pachybrachis Striped Pachys) » Pachybrachis pawnee

Species Pachybrachis pawnee

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Pachybrachis pawnee Fall - Pachybrachis pawnee

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 (Striped Pachys)

Species pawnee (Pachybrachis pawnee)

Other Common Names

'Pawnee Plains Pachy'

Explanation of Names

Pachybrachis pawnee Fall, 1915

Size

3-3.5 mm (1)

Identification

"Elytra yellow, with suture or sutural bead and two discal vittae on each black or brownish. Front claws of male distinctly enlarged; lustre dull, outer elytral vitta confined to the 7th and 8th interspaces." (1)

Range

SD-TX, MO (2)

Season

May-Jun (1)

Food

coll'ed from dock - Rumex (Polygonaceae) (3)

Remarks

Type Locality: Onaga, Kansas [Pottawatomie County]

Print References

Fall, H.C. 1915. A revision of the North American species of Pachybrachys. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 41: 291-486. (1)

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	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 .

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

3.	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.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 April, 2014 - 11:39am
Last updated 2 December, 2023 - 1:54pm

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