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Species Pachybrachis tridens

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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 tridens (Pachybrachis tridens)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Syn: Pachybrachys mollis Haldeman
Explanation of Names
Pachybrachis tridens (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
Size
Length 3.3 mm (1)
Range
e US to MT (TX-GA-NY-MT) - Map (2)(3), uncommon in deep south
Season
mostly May-July (3)
Food
eastern poison ivy - Toxicodendron radicans (Anacardiaceae) (4) (Illinois Wildflowers)
Remarks
Since P. tridens has not been collected from Canada in the last 55 years, it can be considered as extirpated from the Canadian fauna. (5)
Print References
Barney, R.J. 2018. Definition and revision of the pectoralis species-group of eastern North American Pachybrachis Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 72(3): 471-499. (2)
Melsheimer, F.E. 1847. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 3: 158-181.
Works Cited
1.The leaf beetles of Alabama
Edward Balsbaugh and Kirby Hays. 1972. Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University.
2.Definition and revision of the pectoralis species-group of eastern North American Pachybrachis (Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae)
Barney. 2018. The Coleopterists Bulletin 72(3): 471-499.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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.Pachybrachis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae) of eastern Canada
Barney et al. 2013. ZooKeys 332: 95–175.