Pachnephorus

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Pachnephorus
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Pachnephorus villosus
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Pachnephorus pilosus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Pachnephorus
Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
Type species
Cryptocephalus arenarius
(= Cryptocephalus pilosus Rossi, 1790) [1]
Panzer, 1797
Synonyms [2]

Pachnephorus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. [3] [4] It is distributed in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Species

Subgenus Pachnephorus

Subgenus PachnephoriscusLopatin, 1976

Synonyms: [10]

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