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Species Pachybrachis subfasciatus

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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)
No Taxon (Black Pachys)
Species subfasciatus (Pachybrachis subfasciatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pachybrachis subfasciatus (J. E. LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Cryptocephalus subfasciatus J. E. LeConte 1824
Size
Length 3.2-4.2 mm (1)
Identification
The broad irregular or indented transverse median fascia interrupted at the suture along with an apical spot of the same color are distinctive.
Range
e NA (LA-GA-ON-MB) - Map (2)(3)(4), rare in the se US and there are no Canada records from the last 55 years
Season
Apr-May (BG data)
Food
recorded from Juglans, Ulmus, Crataegus, Prunus (5)
See Also
Pachybrachis impurus Suffrian
- Range: s. Great Plains
Dets. E. G. Riley, 1999

P. dilatatus - Range: FL-NJ-IN (2)
Print References
LeConte, J.E. 1824. Description of some new species of North American insects. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 1: 169-173.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.The leaf beetles of Alabama
Edward Balsbaugh and Kirby Hays. 1972. Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University.
2.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
3.Pachybrachis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae) of eastern Canada
Barney et al. 2013. ZooKeys 332: 95–175.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.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.
Contributed by tom murray on 16 July, 2008 - 11:11pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 3 December, 2023 - 1:46am

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