# Pachnephorus

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{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Africa}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Pachnephorus villosus (Duftschmid, 1825).jpg
| image_alt = Pachnephorus villosus
| image_caption = ''[Pachnephorus villosus](/source/Pachnephorus_villosus)''
| image2 = Pachnephorus.pilosus.-.calwer.45.07.jpg
| image2_alt = Pachnephorus pilosus
| image2_caption = ''[Pachnephorus pilosus](/source/Pachnephorus_pilosus)''
| taxon = Pachnephorus
| display_parents = 2
| authority = [Chevrolat](/source/Louis_Alexandre_Auguste_Chevrolat) ''in'' [Dejean](/source/Pierre_Fran%C3%A7ois_Marie_Auguste_Dejean), 1836
| type_species = ''Cryptocephalus arenarius''<br /><small>(= ''[Cryptocephalus pilosus](/source/Pachnephorus_pilosus)'' [Rossi](/source/Pietro_Rossi_(scientist)), 1790)</small><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Yves|last1=Bousquet|first2=Patrice|last2=Bouchard|year=2013 |title=The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection|journal=[ZooKeys](/source/ZooKeys)|issue=282|pages=1–219|doi=10.3897/zookeys.282.4401|pmc=3677338|pmid=23794836|bibcode=2013ZooK..282....1B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| type_species_authority = [Panzer](/source/Georg_Wolfgang_Franz_Panzer), 1797
| synonyms = *''Euchthonius'' <small>[Gistel](/source/Johannes_von_Nepomuk_Franz_Xaver_Gistel), 1856</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite journal|last=Bezděk|first=J.|year=2020 |title=Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)|journal=[Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae](/source/Acta_Entomologica_Musei_Nationalis_Pragae)|volume=60|issue=1|pages=173–188|doi=10.37520/aemnp.2020.011|doi-access=free}}</ref>
}}

'''''Pachnephorus''''' is a genus of [leaf beetle](/source/leaf_beetle)s in the subfamily [Eumolpinae](/source/Eumolpinae).<ref>{{cite web |title=Pachnephorus|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Pachnephorus.html|website=African Eumolpinae site |access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="Zoia2007">{{cite journal|last=Zoia|first=S.|year=2007 |title=A revision of the ''Pachnephorus'' from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)|journal=Fragmenta Entomologica|volume=39|issue=1|pages=1–156|doi=10.13133/2284-4880/128|doi-access=free}}</ref> It is distributed in Africa, Asia and Europe.

==Species==
The following species are included in the genus:<ref name=CPC>{{cite book|last=Moseyko|first=A. G.|year=2024|chapter=subfamily Eumolpinae Hope, 1841|editor-last1=Bezděk|editor-first1=J.|editor-last2=Sekerka|editor-first2=L.|title=Chrysomeloidea II (Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae) – Part 1|series=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera|volume=6/2/1|edition=Updated and Revised Second|place=Leiden, The Netherlands|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-44330-3|pages=688–728|doi=10.1163/9789004443303_003}}</ref><ref name="KimotoGressitt1982">{{cite journal|last1=Kimoto|first1=S.|last2=Gressitt|first2=J. L.|year=1982|title=Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae|url=https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/2421/1.pdf|journal=Esakia|volume=18|pages=1–141|doi=10.5109/2421 |hdl=2324/2421|s2cid=83265328 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Kimoto|first=S.|year=1985|title=Check-list of Chrysomelidae of South East Asia, South of Thailand and West of Irian-Jaya of Indonesia, IV. Eumolpinae, 2|journal=Kurume University Journal|volume=34|issue=2|pages=153–177}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Kimoto|first=S.|year=2003|title=The Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) collected by Dr. Akio Otake, on the occasion of his entomological survey in Sri Lanka from 1973 to 1975|url=http://www.kmnh.jp/wp-content/themes/kmnh_jp/images/pdf/A1-23-E-Kimoto.pdf|journal=Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series a Natural History|volume=1|pages=23–43|access-date=2019-05-20|archive-date=2018-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074150/http://www.kmnh.jp/wp-content/themes/kmnh_jp/images/pdf/A1-23-E-Kimoto.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Zoia2007"/>

Subgenus '''''Pachnephorus'''''
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*''[Pachnephorus achardi](/source/Pachnephorus_achardi)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Mali
*''[Pachnephorus aequatorianus](/source/Pachnephorus_aequatorianus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – DR Congo
*''[Pachnephorus aethiopicus](/source/Pachnephorus_aethiopicus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Ethiopia
*''[Pachnephorus anceyi](/source/Pachnephorus_anceyi)'' <small>[Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1921</small><ref name="Pic1921">{{cite journal|last=Pic|first=M.|year=1921|title=Nouveautés diverses|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36313604|journal=Mélanges exotico-entomologiques|volume=34|pages=1–33}}</ref>
*''[Pachnephorus baehri](/source/Pachnephorus_baehri)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Namibia
*''[Pachnephorus balyi](/source/Pachnephorus_balyi)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Angola
*''[Pachnephorus beharui](/source/Pachnephorus_beharui)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Ethiopia
*''[Pachnephorus bertiae](/source/Pachnephorus_bertiae)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Madagascar
*''[Pachnephorus bezdeki](/source/Pachnephorus_bezdeki)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small>  – DR Congo
*''[Pachnephorus bistriatus](/source/Pachnephorus_bistriatus)'' <small>Mulsant & Wachanru, 1852</small> – southern Europe, Turkey, [Sinai Peninsula](/source/Sinai_Peninsula), North Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, [Sulawesi](/source/Sulawesi) ([Makassar](/source/Makassar))
*''[Pachnephorus bracarumvestitus](/source/Pachnephorus_bracarumvestitus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – DR Congo, Zambia
*''[Pachnephorus bruckii](/source/Pachnephorus_bruckii)'' <small>[Fairmaire](/source/L%C3%A9on_Fairmaire), 1862</small> – France, Italy, Spain
*''[Pachnephorus brunneus](/source/Pachnephorus_brunneus)'' <small>Medvedev, 1957</small> – Turkmenistan
*''[Pachnephorus bryanti](/source/Pachnephorus_bryanti)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Mali
*''[Pachnephorus burgeoni](/source/Pachnephorus_burgeoni)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – South Africa
*''[Pachnephorus camerunensis](/source/Pachnephorus_camerunensis)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Cameroon
*''[Pachnephorus canus](/source/Pachnephorus_canus)'' <small>[Weise](/source/Julius_Weise), 1882</small> – Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, southern European Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Turkmenistan
*''[Pachnephorus clypeatus](/source/Pachnephorus_clypeatus)'' <small>[Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1867</small><ref name="Baly1867">{{cite journal|last=Baly|first=J. S.|year=1867|title=Phytophaga Malayana; a revision of the phytophagous beetles of the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of the new species collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14694386|journal=[Transactions of the Entomological Society of London](/source/Transactions_of_the_Entomological_Society_of_London)|series=3|volume=4|pages=1–300|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2311.1866.tb01857.x}}</ref> – [Halmahera](/source/Halmahera)
*''[Pachnephorus conspersus](/source/Pachnephorus_conspersus)'' <small>[Gerstaecker](/source/Carl_Eduard_Adolph_Gerstaecker), 1871</small> – Kenya, Tanzania
*''[Pachnephorus corinthius](/source/Pachnephorus_corinthius)'' <small>[Fairmaire](/source/L%C3%A9on_Fairmaire), 1862</small> – Albania, Greece, Italy, Turkey
*''[Pachnephorus cristiani](/source/Pachnephorus_cristiani)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – DR Congo, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
*''[Pachnephorus crocodilinus](/source/Pachnephorus_crocodilinus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – widespread in sub-Saharan Africa
*''[Pachnephorus curtus](/source/Pachnephorus_curtus)'' <small>[Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1921</small><ref name="Pic1921"/> – China
*''[Pachnephorus cylindricus](/source/Pachnephorus_cylindricus)'' <small>[H. Lucas](/source/Hippolyte_Lucas), 1846</small> – France, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
*''[Pachnephorus daccordii](/source/Pachnephorus_daccordii)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Saudi Arabia, Yemen
*''[Pachnephorus danielssoni](/source/Pachnephorus_danielssoni)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small>
**''[Pachnephorus danielssoni congoanus](/source/Pachnephorus_danielssoni_congoanus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – DR Congo
**''[Pachnephorus danielssoni danielssoni](/source/Pachnephorus_danielssoni_danielssoni)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Senegal, Sierra Leone
*''[Pachnephorus demeyeri](/source/Pachnephorus_demeyeri)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – DR Congo
*''[Pachnephorus episternalis](/source/Pachnephorus_episternalis)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Madagascar
*''[Pachnephorus fabianae](/source/Pachnephorus_fabianae)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Congo, DR Congo
*''[Pachnephorus fasciatus](/source/Pachnephorus_fasciatus)'' <small>Burgeon, 1941</small>
**''[Pachnephorus fasciatus fasciatus](/source/Pachnephorus_fasciatus_fasciatus)'' <small>Burgeon, 1941</small> – Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, DR Congo, Angola
**''[Pachnephorus fasciatus occidentalis](/source/Pachnephorus_fasciatus_occidentalis)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Nigeria
*''[Pachnephorus fulvus](/source/Pachnephorus_fulvus)'' <small>Lopatin, 1976</small> – Uzbekistan
*''[Pachnephorus gardinii](/source/Pachnephorus_gardinii)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – widespread in sub-Saharan Africa
*''[Pachnephorus gerstaeckeri](/source/Pachnephorus_gerstaeckeri)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Namibia
*''[Pachnephorus grobbelaarae](/source/Pachnephorus_grobbelaarae)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa
*''[Pachnephorus hajeki](/source/Pachnephorus_hajeki)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Madagascar
*''[Pachnephorus hispidulus](/source/Pachnephorus_hispidulus)'' <small>[Fairmaire](/source/L%C3%A9on_Fairmaire), 1866</small> – Algeria, Morocco
*''[Pachnephorus kaszabi](/source/Pachnephorus_kaszabi)'' <small>Lopatin, 1962</small> – Afghanistan
*''[Pachnephorus laevicollis](/source/Pachnephorus_laevicollis)'' <small>[Fairmaire](/source/L%C3%A9on_Fairmaire), 1862</small> – Italy, Spain, Algeria, Morocco
*''[Pachnephorus lateralis](/source/Pachnephorus_lateralis)'' <small>[Reitter](/source/Edmund_Reitter), 1901</small> – southern European Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey
*''[Pachnephorus latior](/source/Pachnephorus_latior)'' <small>[Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1921</small><ref name="Pic1921"/> – Madagascar
*''[Pachnephorus lewisi](/source/Pachnephorus_lewisi)'' <small>[Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1878</small><ref name="Baly1878">{{cite journal|first=J. S.|last=Baly|year=1878|title=Description of New Species and Genera of Eumolpidæ|url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/14/75/246/16722611/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x.pdf|journal=[Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society](/source/Zoological_Journal_of_the_Linnean_Society)|volume=14|issue=75|pages=246–265|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x}}</ref> – China, Taiwan, India, North Korea, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, [Sumatra](/source/Sumatra)
*''[Pachnephorus lopatini](/source/Pachnephorus_lopatini)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Senegal
*''[Pachnephorus malicus](/source/Pachnephorus_malicus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Mali
*''[Pachnephorus maroantsetranus](/source/Pachnephorus_maroantsetranus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Madagascar
*''[Pachnephorus medvedevi](/source/Pachnephorus_medvedevi)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Zambia, DR Congo
*''[Pachnephorus metallicus](/source/Pachnephorus_metallicus)'' <small>Bryant, 1959</small> – South Africa
*''[Pachnephorus moseykoi](/source/Pachnephorus_moseykoi)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – widespread in sub-Saharan Africa
*''[Pachnephorus pacificus](/source/Pachnephorus_pacificus)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Central African Republic
*''[Pachnephorus parentorum](/source/Pachnephorus_parentorum)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Ghana
*''[Pachnephorus pilosus](/source/Pachnephorus_pilosus)'' <small>([Rossi](/source/Pietro_Rossi_(scientist)), 1790)</small> – widespread in Europe and Asia
*''[Pachnephorus poggii](/source/Pachnephorus_poggii)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Somalia, Kenya
*''[Pachnephorus porosus](/source/Pachnephorus_porosus)'' <small>[Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1878</small><ref name="Baly1878"/> – China, Taiwan, India, North Korea, Nepal, Russian Far East, South Korea, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
*''[Pachnephorus regalini](/source/Pachnephorus_regalini)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Zambia
*''[Pachnephorus rigatoi](/source/Pachnephorus_rigatoi)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya
*''[Pachnephorus robustus](/source/Pachnephorus_robustus)'' <small>[Desbrochers des Loges](/source/Jules_Desbrochers_des_Loges), 1870</small> – southern European Russia, Ukraine, Turkey
*''[Pachnephorus ruficornis](/source/Pachnephorus_ruficornis)'' <small>[Lefèvre](/source/%C3%89douard_Lef%C3%A8vre), 1876</small> – Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Turkey
*''[Pachnephorus sassii](/source/Pachnephorus_sassii)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Guinea-Bissau
*''[Pachnephorus senegalensis](/source/Pachnephorus_senegalensis)'' <small>Achard, 1914</small><ref name="Achard1914">{{cite journal|last=Achard|first=J.|year=1914|title=Eumolpides nouveaux d'Afrique tropicale|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8246835|journal=[Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France](/source/Bulletin_de_la_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Entomologique_de_France)|volume=1914|pages=227–231|doi=10.3406/bsef.1914.25559 |s2cid=186388279 }}</ref> – widespread in sub-Saharan Africa
*''[Pachnephorus shuteae](/source/Pachnephorus_shuteae)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – South Africa
*''[Pachnephorus sprecherae](/source/Pachnephorus_sprecherae)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Madagascar
*''[Pachnephorus syriacus](/source/Pachnephorus_syriacus)'' <small>[Reitter](/source/Edmund_Reitter), 1886</small> – Israel
*''[Pachnephorus tessellatus](/source/Pachnephorus_tessellatus)'' <small>([Duftschmid](/source/Caspar_Erasmus_Duftschmid), 1825)</small><ref name="Duftschmid1825">{{cite book|last=Duftschmid|first=C. E.|year=1825|title=Fauna Austriæ, oder Beschreibung der österreichischen Insecten : für angehende Freunde der Entomologie|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35733921|volume=3|location=[Linz](/source/Linz)|publisher=Verlag der k.k. priv. akademischen Kunst- Musik- und Buchhandlung|pages=1–289}}</ref> – widespread in Europe and Asia
*''[Pachnephorus testaceipes](/source/Pachnephorus_testaceipes)'' <small>[Fairmaire](/source/L%C3%A9on_Fairmaire), 1880</small> – Madagascar
*''[Pachnephorus torridus](/source/Pachnephorus_torridus)'' <small>[Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1878</small><ref name="Baly1878"/> – widespread in sub-Saharan Africa
*''[Pachnephorus turcomanicus](/source/Pachnephorus_turcomanicus)'' <small>Medvedev, 1957</small> – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
*''[Pachnephorus uhligi](/source/Pachnephorus_uhligi)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Namibia
*''[Pachnephorus villosus](/source/Pachnephorus_villosus)'' <small>([Duftschmid](/source/Caspar_Erasmus_Duftschmid), 1825)</small><ref name="Duftschmid1825"/> – widespread in Europe and Asia
*''[Pachnephorus vitticollis](/source/Pachnephorus_vitticollis)'' <small>[Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1867</small><ref name="Baly1867"/> – [Bacan Islands](/source/Bacan_Islands)
*''[Pachnephorus willersi](/source/Pachnephorus_willersi)'' <small>Zoia, 2007</small> – Namibia
*''[Pachnephorus yemenicus](/source/Pachnephorus_yemenicus)'' <small>Lopatin, 2001</small> – Yemen
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Subgenus '''''Pachnephoriscus''''' <small>Lopatin, 1976</small>
*''[Pachnephorus jacobsoni](/source/Pachnephorus_jacobsoni)'' <small>Lopatin, 1976</small> – Uzbekistan

Synonyms:<ref name=CPC/>
* ''Pachnephorus baeticus'' <small>[Weise](/source/Julius_Weise), 1882</small>: synonym of ''[Pachnephorus bruckii](/source/Pachnephorus_bruckii)'' <small>[Fairmaire](/source/L%C3%A9on_Fairmaire), 1862</small>
* ''Pachnephorus convexicollis'' <small>[Baly](/source/Joseph_Sugar_Baly), 1867</small>:<ref name="Baly1867"/> synonym of ''[Pachnephorus bistriatus](/source/Pachnephorus_bistriatus)'' <small>Mulsant & Wachanru, 1852</small>
* ''Pachnephorus graecus'' <small>[Pic](/source/Maurice_Pic), 1901</small>: synonym of ''[Pachnephorus corinthius](/source/Pachnephorus_corinthius)'' <small>[Fairmaire](/source/L%C3%A9on_Fairmaire), 1862</small>

==References==
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Category:Pachnephorus
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