Greenbriar Leaf Beetle

Pachyonychus paradoxus

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae

Pachyonychus is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae containing a single described species, P. paradoxus, from the United States. The name is extremely similar to a different flea beetle, Pachyonychis paradoxa, named in 1860, that occurs on the same host plant.

Distribution

Greenbriar Leaf Beetle — (c) skitterbug, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by skitterbug · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 18

Sources and credits

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