''Pachyonychis'' is a genus of
flea beetles in the family
Chrysomelidae
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
containing a single described species, ''P. paradoxa'', from the
United States.
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The name is extremely similar to a different flea beetle, '' Pachyonychus paradoxus'', named in 1847, that occurs on the same host plant; Crotch, in 1873, erroneously thought that Clark's name was spelled the same as the other species, and replaced Clark's name.][
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References
Alticini
Monotypic Chrysomelidae genera
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Taxa named by Hamlet Clark
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