Biology:Pseudoxanthus

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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from Africa

Pseudoxanthus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
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, described by Stefano Zoia in 2010. It is distributed in South Africa .[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]

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