Pachnephorus tessellatus

Pachnephorus tessellatus is a species of leaf beetle in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is widely distributed across Europe and Asia, and is also present on the Canary Islands.[5][6] It was first described by Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid in 1825.

Pachnephorus tessellatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Pachnephorus
Subgenus: Pachnephorus (Pachnephorus)
Species:
P. tessellatus
Binomial name
Pachnephorus tessellatus
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Eumolpus sabulosus Gebler, 1830
  • Eumolpus tessellatus Duftschmid, 1825
  • Myochrous albovillosus Jacoby, 1882[4]
  • Pachnephorus arenarius Küster, 1846

Myochrous albovillosus, a synonym of P. tessellatus, was described from "Mexico" by Martin Jacoby in 1882. However, Doris Holmes Blake, who determined the two species to be the same, thought this reported locality to be due to a mistake in locality labels.[2]

References
  1. Duftschmid, C. E. (1825). Fauna Austriæ, oder Beschreibung der österreichischen Insecten : für angehende Freunde der Entomologie. 3. Linz: Verlag der k.k. priv. akademischen Kunst- Musik- und Buchhandlung. pp. 1–289.
  2. Blake, D. H. (1950). "A Revision of the Beetles of the Genus Myochrous" (PDF). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 101 (3271): 1–64. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.101-3271.1.
  3. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  4. Jacoby, M. (1881). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. 6 (1). pp. 105–187.
  5. Nadein, K.; Ahmed, Z.; Sergeev, M. (2012). "Distributional notes on Chrysomelidae from Pakistan and Afghanistan (Coleoptera)" (PDF). Beiträge zur Entomologie. 62 (1): S225–S233.
  6. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Canary Is". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 2, 2016.


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