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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) » Pachybrachis subvittatus

Species Pachybrachis subvittatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Pachybrachis subvittatus LeConte - Pachybrachis subvittatus

Pachybrachis subvittatus J. L. LeConte - Pachybrachis subvittatus - female

Pachybrachis subvittatus LeConte - Pachybrachis subvittatus - female

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 subvittatus (Pachybrachis subvittatus)

Explanation of Names

Pachybrachis subvittatus J. L. LeConte 1880

Size

Length 3.6 mm (1)

Identification

variable and sexually dimorphic, males pale, females dark.

Range

NM to n. & s. TX - Map (2)(3), but reliably known only from TX (4)

Season

Mar-Jun (BG data)

Food

long series of females, apparently of this sp., recently taken from catclaw acacia (Senegalia (=Acacia) greggii, Fabaceae / Leguminosae)

See Also

Pachybrachis hector Fall

- Range: TX-KS

Det. E. G. Riley

Print References

LeConte, J.L. 1880. Short studies of North American Coleoptera. Transactions of the American. Entomological Society 8: 163–218.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

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 .

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

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.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 7 January, 2009 - 2:27pm
Last updated 29 March, 2024 - 1:38pm

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