Pachnephorus torridus
Species of beetle
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Pachnephorus torridus is a species of leaf beetle that is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, described by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1878.[2]
| Pachnephorus torridus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Pachnephorus |
| Subgenus: | Pachnephorus (Pachnephorus) |
| Species: | P. torridus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pachnephorus torridus | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Pachnephorus costatus Achard, 1914[3] | |
Distribution
P. torridus is recorded from Senegal,[4] Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Mali,[5] Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[6] Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa.[2]