Pachnephorus torridus is a species of leaf beetle found in Senegal,[4] Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Mali,[5] Ivory Coast, Burkina, Togo, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[6] Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa,[3] described by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1878.[6]

Pachnephorus torridus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Pachnephorus
Subgenus: Pachnephorus (Pachnephorus)
Species:
P. torridus
Binomial name
Pachnephorus torridus
Baly, 1878[1]
Synonyms[3]

Pachnephorus costatus Achard, 1914[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Baly, J. S. (1878). "Description of New Species and Genera of Eumolpidæ" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 14 (75): 246–265. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x.
  2. ^ Achard, J. (1914). "Eumolpides nouveaux d'Afrique tropicale". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1914: 227–231. doi:10.3406/bsef.1914.25559. S2CID 186388279.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Senegal". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  5. ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Mali". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved December 19, 2015.