Dachrys Erichson, 1847

Agrain, Federico A., Chamorro, Maria Lourdes, Cabrera, Nora, Sassi, Davide & Roig-Junent, Sergio, 2017, A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata), ZooKeys 677, pp. 11-88 : 17

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.677.10778

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scientific name

Dachrys Erichson, 1847
status

 

Dachrys Erichson, 1847 Fig. 7

Erichson 1847: 164; Lacordaire 1848: 405-406; Chapuis 1874: 146; Jacoby and Clavareau 1906: 68-69; Clavareau 1913: 80; Guérin 1943: 53-54; Monrós 1953a: 208-209, 1953b: 48-49; Moldenke 1970: 108.

Type species.

Dachrys succincta (Erichson, 1834), designated by Monrós (1953b: 48).

Diagnosis.

This genus resembles Saxinis , but is distinguished by the epipleural lobe not well developed and from Temnodachrys by the sides of the prothorax curved (strongly convergent towards the head); frons with deep medial pit; and distinct elytral pattern with transverse black bands on reddish base color.

Distribution.

Austral region of Chile and Argentina.

Remarks.

Monrós (1953b) separated the genera: Saxinodachrys , Cylindrodachrys , and Temnodachrys , formerly considered within Dachrys . Currently monotypic.

Argentinian species checklist.

Dachrys succincta (Erichson, 1834) (CHU, NQN, RNO). Host plant: Rhamnaceae : Discaria sp. ( Monrós, 1953a) and Chacaya trimereus ( Roig-Juñent, 2004).

= Clythra succincta Erichson, 1834.

= Dachrys succincta Lacordaire, 1848.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae