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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) » Pubescent Pachys (Pachybrachis Pubescent Pachys) » Pachybrachis brunneus

Species Pachybrachis brunneus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Pachybrachis brunneus Bowditch - Pachybrachis brunneus

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 (Pubescent Pachys)

Species brunneus (Pachybrachis brunneus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

P. brunneus Bowditch is synonymized under P. donneri (new synonymy) (1)

Explanation of Names

Pachybrachis brunneus Bowditch 1909

Size

Length 3 to 4.25 mm (2)

Identification

Fall's description:

Form narrower than usual in this section, testaceous with pale brown punctures, the thoracic M indicated by faint brownish-clouds, which occasionally become fuscous or black and involve the whole disk except narrow side margins; elytra frequently with diffuse shades which, as on the thorax, tend to become darker and spread broadly over the disk; surface finely alutaceous, lustre dull, pubescence rather plentiful, short, decumbent. (2)

Range

sw US (CA-TX-CO-UT) (3)

Food

reported in asso. w/ Baccharis, also a short series coll'ed from Salix in AZ (4)

Remarks

Type Locality: Prescott, AZ

Print References

Bowditch, F.C. 1909. Notes on Pachybrachys and descriptions of new species. Canadian Entomologist 41: 237-244, 285-292, 312-324. (5)

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	Definition and revision of pubescens species-group of NA Pachybrachis (Chrysomelidae), including descriptions of three n. spp. Barney, R.J. 2019. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 73(4): 1017-1048.

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.	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.

5.	Notes on Pachybrachys and descriptions of new species. Bowditch, F.C. 1909. Canadian Entomologist 41: 312-324.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 August, 2014 - 8:20am
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 13 August, 2023 - 12:22pm

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