Pseudoxanthus

Pseudoxanthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:Eumolpinae
Genus:Pseudoxanthus
Zoia, 2010[1]
Species: P. snizeki
Binomial name
Pseudoxanthus snizeki
Zoia, 2010[1]

Pseudoxanthus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2] It contains only one species, Pseudoxanthus snizeki. It is distributed in South Africa.[1]

The generic name is a combination of pseudo- (false) and -xanthus (blonde). The latter is from the seoond half of Dermoxanthus, the name of a closely related genus. The species is named after Miroslav Snížek, who collected the majority of the specimens studied.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Zoia, S. (2010). "New data on African Eumolpinae from the collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Basel (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey. 32: 323–341.
  2. "Pseudoxanthus". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 5 May 2018.


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