Biology:Pachnephorus fasciatus
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Short description: Species of beetle
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Pachnephorus |
| Species: | P. fasciatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pachnephorus fasciatus Burgeon, 1941
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Pachnephorus fasciatus is a species of leaf beetle found in western, central and southern Africa.[1] It was first described by the Belgian entomologist Louis Jules Léon Burgeon in 1941.
Subspecies
There are two subspecies of P. fasciatus:[1]
- Pachnephorus fasciatus fasciatus Burgeon, 1941: The nominotypical subspecies. Distributed in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo[2] and Angola.
- Pachnephorus fasciatus occidentalis Zoia, 2007: Distributed in Senegal,[3] Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. The subspecies name refers to the subspecies occurring in an occidental (western) region, compared to the area the nominal subspecies is found in.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zoia, S. (2007). "A revision of the Pachnephorus from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Fragmenta Entomologica 39 (1): 1–156. doi:10.4081/fe.2007.128. http://www.fragmentaentomol.org/index.php/fragmenta/article/download/128/119.
- ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/DemRepCongo.html.
- ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Senegal". chrysomelidae.it. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Senegal.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q42328902 entry
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