Pachyonychis is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae containing a single described species, P. paradoxa, from the United States.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Alticini |
| Genus: | Pachyonychis H. Clark, 1860[1] |
| Species: | P. paradoxa
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| Pachyonychis paradoxa H. Clark, 1860
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The name is extremely similar to a different flea beetle, Pachyonychus paradoxus, named in 1847, that occurs on the same host plant; Crotch, in 1873, erroneously thought that Clark's name was spelled the same as the other species, and replaced Clark's name.[3]
References
edit- ^ Clark, H. (1860). Catalogue of Halticidae in the collection of the British Museum, Physapodes and Oedipodes. Part I. London: The Trustees. p. 61.
- ^ Nadein, K. S. (2013). Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8.
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