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Pachystethus

Pachystethus is a genus of shining leaf chafers in the beetle family Scarabaeidae. There are about six described species in Pachystethus, found in Mexico and Central America.

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Pachystethus
Pachystethus nectoctenus, México
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Rutelinae
Tribe: Rutelini
Genus: Pachystethus
Blanchard, 1851

Pachystethus is a genus of shining leaf chafers in the beetle family Scarabaeidae. There are about six described species in Pachystethus, found in Mexico and Central America.12345

Species

These six species belong to the genus Pachystethus:

  • Pachystethus crassesculptus (Bates, 1889) (Guatemala, Mexico)
  • Pachystethus ixtacomitanus Ramírez-Ponce & Morón, 2012 (Mexico)
  • Pachystethus matzapatlecus Ramírez-Ponce & Morón, 2012 (Mexico)
  • Pachystethus nectoctenus Ramírez-Ponce & Morón, 2012 (Mexico)
  • Pachystethus nutans (Bates, 1888) (Guatemala, Mexico)
  • Pachystethus viduus (Newman, 1838) (Mexico, Panama)
References

References

  1. "GBIF, Pachystethus". Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  2. "Catalogue of Life, Pachystethus Blanchard, 1851". Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  3. Ramírez-Ponce, Andrés; Morón, Miguel Ángel (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Anomala (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae)". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 80. doi:10.22201/ib.20078706e.2009.002.610. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  4. Moore, Matthew R.; Jameson, Mary L.; Garner, Beulah H.; Audibert, Cédric; et al. (2017). "Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies". ZooKeys (666): 1–349. doi:10.3897/zookeys.666.9191. hdl:10141/622577. PMC 5534527. PMID 28769631. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
  5. Allsopp, Peter G.; Schoolmeesters, Paul (2024). "All genera of the world: Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae and Cetoniinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Megataxa. 12: 1–103. doi:10.11646/megataxa.12.1.1. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
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