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Alethaxius
Alethaxius is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed from Mexico to northern South America, and it is also found in the West Indies. The genus was originally named Aletes by Félicien Chapuis in 1874. However, this name was preoccupied by Aletes Carpenter, 1857 (in Mollusca), so the genus was renamed to Alethaxius by Édouard Lefèvre in 1885. According to Flowers (1996), it is very likely that Alethaxius is polyphyletic and...
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Alethaxius semiviridis
speciesAlethaxius semiviridis
Alethaxius mexicanus
speciesAlethaxius mexicanus
Alethaxius pubicollis
speciesAlethaxius pubicollis
Alethaxius tuberculifer
speciesAlethaxius tuberculifer
Alethaxius dominicae
speciesAlethaxius dominicae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 253140.