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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Pachnephorus |
| Species: | P. fasciatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pachnephorus fasciatus Burgeon, 1941
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Subspecies
editThere 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
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Senegal". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved October 31, 2016.