Pseudoxanthus

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Pseudoxanthus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Pseudoxanthus
Zoia, 2010 [1]
Species:
P. snizeki
Binomial name
Pseudoxanthus snizeki
Zoia, 2010 [1]

Pseudoxanthus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. [2] It contains only one species, Pseudoxanthus snizeki, described by Stefano Zoia in 2010. It is distributed in South Africa. [1]

The generic name is a combination of pseudo- (false) and -xanthus (blonde). The latter is from the second half of " Dermoxanthus ", the name of a closely related genus. The species is named after Miroslav Snížek, who collected the majority of the specimens studied. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Zoia, S. (2010). "New data on African Eumolpinae from the collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Basel (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey. 32: 323–341.
  2. "Pseudoxanthus". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 5 May 2018.