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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)

Yellow Pachys

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Pachybrachis diversus Fall - Pachybrachis diversus

Pachybrachis caelatus LeConte - Pachybrachis caelatus - male

Pachybrachis pusillus Bowditch - Pachybrachis pusillus

Pachybrachis macronychus Fall - Pachybrachis macronychus

Pachybrachis caelatus LeConte - Pachybrachis caelatus

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

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Group B - an artificial group of Pachybrachis spp. called out by Fall (1915), the last person to revise Pachybrachis. (1)

Identification

This group includes those species which are--so far as Fall (1915) knew--normally almost entirely yellow or testaceous at least so far as the elytra are concerned. (1)

Key p. 310 in source

Remarks

Spp. recognized by Fall (1915) as members of Group B

(Starred species (*) are tabulated in more than one group though most of their elytral markings are usually quite small and inconspicuous)

abdominalis

arizonensis

caelatus*

coloradensis

conspirator*

convictus*

crassus

densus

diversus

immaculatus

jacobyi

liebecki

livens

lodingi

longus

macronychus

marginipennis

mellitus

mercurialis

minor

mitis

nero

nubilis*

parvinotatus

othonus pallidipennis

petronius

placidus

punctatus*

pusillus

purus

sublimatus*

tacitus

xantholucens

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)

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 .

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 August, 2014 - 4:43pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche
Last updated 23 June, 2021 - 6:15am

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