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Species Pachybrachis brevicornis

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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 brevicornis (Pachybrachis brevicornis)
Explanation of Names
Pachybrachis brevicornis Fall 1915
Size
Ave. length 2.9 mm. (1)
Length 2.75 to 3.1 mm.
Identification
Robust, yellow, with more or less heavy fuscous standard markings; eyes moderately distant, front with ocular lines; antennae unusually short; elytra strongly striate; front claws of male not appreciably enlarged. (Fall 1915)
Elytra diffusely punctate in a not very large basal-sutural triangle, elsewhere with distinct striae which are rather strongly impressed laterally, the fifth and sixth more or less broken or irregular at middle, the eighth with a subbasal dislocation; marginal interspace impunctate; shield conspicuous, elongate triangular.
The color may be described as yellow with more or less heavy confluent standard spots which vary from brown to nearly black; or as brown or blackish with the basal margin, some short spurs extending backward from it, two short interrupted lateral transverse fasciae, the shield, and the apex, yellow. (Fall 1915)

Det. E. G. Riley, 2009
Range
Apparently endemic to Texas - Map (2)(3)
Season
Mar-May (BG data)
Food
Adults collected from Mesquite - Prosopis glandulosa (Fabaceae) (4)
Remarks
Type Locality: "Tex"
See Also
Pachybrachis turbidus

Det. E. G. Riley
Print References
Fall, H.C. 1915. A revision of the North American species of Pachybrachys. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 41: 291–486. (1)
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.