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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Agrilinae » Tracheini » Pachyschelus

Genus Pachyschelus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Metallic Wood-boring Beetles - Pachyschelus laevigatus Tiny Pachyschelus? - Pachyschelus secedens Wood-boring Beetles - Pachyschelus St. Andrews leaf miner on Rhynchosia tomentosa SA978 2017 2 - Pachyschelus laevigatus St. Andrews leaf miner on Rhynchosia tomentosa SA978 2017 4 - Pachyschelus laevigatus Eagle Spur Trail leaf miner on Lespedeza thunbergii D2546 2020 2.1 - Pachyschelus laevigatus Buprestidae, leaf mine on Pointed-leaf Tick Trefoil - Pachyschelus laevigatus New Hope Bottomlands leaf miner on Lespedeza cuneata D3852 Pachyschellus 2022 2 - Pachyschelus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Buprestoidea
Family Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
Subfamily Agrilinae
Tribe Tracheini
Genus Pachyschelus
Explanation of Names
Pachyschelus Solier 1833
Numbers
8 spp. in our area(1), >270 spp. total(2)
Size
2-3 mm
Identification
Small, flattened, rhomboidal leaf-mining beetles; differ from Taphrocerus and Brachys in the broad, flattened tibiae, large triangular scutellum and mandibles hidden beneath the prosternum
key to spp. in(1)
Range
New World & Oriental; primarily tropical(2)
Remarks
member of the subtribe Pachyschelina Bøving & Craighead 1931 that contains ~280 spp. in 2 genera, mostly Neotropical & Oriental(3)
Works Cited
1.A reconsideration of Pachyschelus schwarzi Kerremans and a review of American Pachyschelus North of Mexico (Col.: Buprestidae)
Hespenheide H.A. 2003. Col. Bull. 57: 459-468.
2.Bellamy C.L. () The world of jewel beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
3.Bellamy C.L. (2013) The world of jewel beetles: A checklist of world Buprestoidea
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 March, 2005 - 9:36am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 23 February, 2015 - 8:41am

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