Pachnephorus tessellatus is a species of leaf beetle in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is widely distributed across Europe and Asia, and is also present on the Canary Islands.[5][6] It was first described by Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid in 1825.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Pachnephorus |
| Subgenus: | Pachnephorus (Pachnephorus) |
| Species: | P. tessellatus
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| Pachnephorus tessellatus (Duftschmid, 1825)[1]
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Myochrous albovillosus, a synonym of P. tessellatus, was described from "Mexico" by Martin Jacoby in 1882. However, Doris Holmes Blake, who determined the two species to be the same, thought this reported locality to be due to a mistake in locality labels.[3]
References
edit- ^ Duftschmid, C. E. (1825). Fauna Austriæ, oder Beschreibung der österreichischen Insecten : für angehende Freunde der Entomologie. Vol. 3. Linz: Verlag der k.k. priv. akademischen Kunst- Musik- und Buchhandlung. pp. 1–289.
- ^ Jacoby, M. (1881). "Eumolpidae". Insecta. Coleoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. 6. pp. 105–187.
- ^ a b Blake, D. H. (1950). "A Revision of the Beetles of the Genus Myochrous" (PDF). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 101 (3271): 1–64. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.101-3271.1.
- ^ Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
- ^ Nadein, K.; Ahmed, Z.; Sergeev, M. (2012). "Distributional notes on Chrysomelidae from Pakistan and Afghanistan (Coleoptera)" (PDF). Beiträge zur Entomologie. 62 (1): S225–S233.
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Canary Is". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 2, 2016.