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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) » Pubescent Pachys (Pachybrachis Pubescent Pachys)

Pubescent Pachys

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Pachybrachis morosus Haldeman - Pachybrachis morosus Pachybrachis - Pachybrachis morosus Pachybrachis - Pachybrachis wickhami cropped beetle 7.11.15 - Pachybrachis wickhami Pachybrachis? - Pachybrachis analis Pachybrachis? - Pachybrachis thoracicus Pachybrachis thoracicus? - Pachybrachis thoracicus Pubescent Pachys group? - Pachybrachis
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 Pubescent Pachys
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Group A - an artificial group of pubescent Pachybrachis spp. called out by Fall (1915), and just revised by Barney (2019) (1)(2)

Pachybrachis haematodes Suffrian is synonymized under P. morosus (new synonymy),
P. marmoratus Jacoby and P. desertus Fall are synonymized under P. analis (new synonymies), and
P. brunneus Bowditch and P. uteanus Fall are synonymized under P. donneri (new synonymies). (2)
Identification
upper surface distinctly pubescent (1) Key p. 308 in source
Range
only pubescent Pachy sp. e. of Texas is Pachybrachis morosus Haldeman (2)
Remarks
members of Fall's (1915) pubescent species group A as revised by Barney (2019):

analis - robust, black, thin pubescence, yellow elytral tips
connexus
donneri - black with yellow elytral edges
gilberti
integratus - Cryptocephalus-like
madera
morosus
thoracicus - black with red at base of thorax
vigilans
wickhami - very thick pubescent, gray thorax and orange elytra
xanti - yellow, thin pubescence, barrel-shaped
Print References
Barney, R.J. 2019. Definition and revision of the pubescens species-group of North American Pachybrachis Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae), including descriptions of three new species. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 73(4): 1017-1048. (2)
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.Definition and revision of pubescens species-group of NA Pachybrachis (Chrysomelidae), including descriptions of three n. spp.
Barney, R.J. 2019. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 73(4): 1017-1048.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 August, 2014 - 12:57pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche
Last updated 23 June, 2021 - 6:17am

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