Pachyonychus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
Tribe: | Alticini |
Genus: | Pachyonychus F. E. Melsheimer, 1847 [1] |
Species: | P. paradoxus |
Binomial name | |
Pachyonychus paradoxus F. E. Melsheimer, 1847 | |
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Pachyonychus is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae containing a single described species, P. paradoxus, from the United States. [2]
The name is extremely similar to a different flea beetle, Pachyonychis paradoxa , named in 1860, that occurs on the same host plant. [3]