Pathius

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Pathius
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Euryopini
Genus: Pathius
Aslam, 1968 [1]
Type species
Taphius flavus
Jacoby, 1897 [2]
Synonyms

Taphius Jacoby, 1897
(nec Adams, 1855 nec Rafinesque, 1815)
[3]

Pathius is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. [4] It is known from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

The genus was originally named Taphius by Martin Jacoby in 1897; however, this name was preoccupied by TaphiusAdams, 1855 (a genus in Mollusca, currently a synonym of Biomphalaria Preston, 1910) and TaphiusRafinesque, 1815 (a nomen nudum genus in Crustacea), so it was renamed to Pathius by N. A. Aslam in 1968.

Species

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References

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