Species Pachybrachis gracilipes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Pachybrachis gracilipes Fall - Pachybrachis gracilipes

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 gracilipes (Pachybrachis gracilipes)

Explanation of Names

Pachybrachis gracilipes Fall 1915

gracilipes (L). 'slender foot' (1)

Size

Length 2.7 to 3 mm (2)

Identification

Fall's description:

Of medium size, rather brightly black and yellow mottled; eyes in the male separated by a distance which is less, and in the female more, than the vertical width of their upper lobes; no ocular lines; front tibiae scarcely widened apically; front claws of male small. (2)

Fall's last key couplet for this sp:

Side margins of prothorax smooth, markings throughout black or nearly so, and more sharply contrasting. (2)

Range

w TX (2)(3)

Print References

Fall, H.C. 1915. A revision of the North American species of Pachybrachys. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 41: 291-486. (2)

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

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.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 December, 2016 - 8:42am

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