Pseudoxanthus
Pseudoxanthus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2] It contains only one species, Pseudoxanthus snizeki, described by Stefano Zoia in 2010. It is distributed in South Africa.[1]
| Pseudoxanthus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Bromiini |
| Genus: | Pseudoxanthus Zoia, 2010[1] |
| Species: | P. snizeki |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudoxanthus snizeki Zoia, 2010[1] | |
The generic name is a combination of pseudo- (false) and -xanthus (blonde). The latter is from the second 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
- 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.
- "Pseudoxanthus". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
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