Pachyonychus
Genus of beetles
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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]
| 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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The name is extremely similar to a different flea beetle, Pachyonychis paradoxa, named in 1860, that occurs on the same host plant.[3]
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