Pachnephoptrus
{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Asia and Europe}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Pachnephoptrus
| display_parents = 2
| authority = Reitter, 1892
| type_species = Pachnephoptrus weisei
| type_species_authority = Reitter, 1892
| synonyms =
- Bromiodes Jacoby, 1895{{cite journal|last=Jacoby|first=M.|year=1895|title=Descriptions of the new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by Mr Andrewes in India|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12724685|journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique|volume=39|pages=252–288}}
- Leprotella Jacoby, 1900
}}
Pachnephoptrus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.{{cite book|last1=Moseyko|first1=A. G.|last2=Sprecher-Uebersax|first2=E.|year=2010|chapter=Eumolpinae|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620|editor-last1=Löbl|editor-first1=I.|editor-last2=Smetana|editor-first2=A.|title=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea|location=Stenstrup, Denmark|publisher=Apollo Books|pages=619–643|isbn=978-87-88757-84-2}} The genus includes four species; one of them, P. weisei, is distributed from the Transcaucasus to Central Asia, while the other three are found in the Himalayas.{{cite journal|last1=Medvedev|first1=L. N.|last2=Sprecher-Uebersax|first2=E.|year=1999|title=Taxonomical study of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Nepal|journal=Entomologica Basiliensia|volume=21|pages=355–370|doi=10.5169/seals-980426|doi-access=free}}
Species
- Pachnephoptrus cashmirensis (Jacoby, 1900) – Kashmir
- Pachnephoptrus indicus (Jacoby, 1895) – India (Himachal Pradesh), Nepal
- Pachnephoptrus squamosus (Bryant, 1923){{cite journal|last=Bryant|first=G. E.|year=1922|publication-date=31 January 1923|title=New Injurious Phytophaga from India and Brazil|journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research|volume=13|issue=3|pages=261–265|doi=10.1017/S0007485300045338|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2421295}}{{cite journal|last=Papp|first=C.S.|year=1951|title=Some new Phytophaga from South-America and India (42d Contribution to the knowledge of the Chrysomelidae)|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28257334|journal=Tijdschrift voor Entomologie|volume=93|pages=131–133}} – India (Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal)
- Pachnephoptrus weisei Reitter, 1892 – Azerbaijan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Host plants
P. weisei has been reported on plants of the genus Astragalus (Fabaceae), while P. squamosus has been reported attacking young leaves of pear trees in an orchard in Shimla, India.{{cite journal|first=Jolivet|last=Pierre|year=1987|title=Sélection trophique chez les Megascelinae et les Eumolpinae (Cyclica) (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Suite et fin.|trans-title=Trophic Selection among Megascelinae and Eumolpinae (Cyclica) (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)|journal=Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon|volume=56|issue=7|pages=217–240|doi=10.3406/linly.1987.10805|doi-access=free|language=French}}