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Polyonychus
	Polyonychus tricolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Buprestidae
Genus:	Polyonychus; Chevrolat, 1838
Type species
	Polyonychus mucidus; Chevrolat 1838
Diversity
	6 (see text)

Polyonychus is a genus of jewel beetles that belongs to the subfamily Agrilinae. Some species belonging to this genus have been found in Australia.^[1]^[2]

Taxonomy

This genus was established in 1838 by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat, a French entomologist that specialized in the study of beetles. It was not accepted as a subgenus of Coraebus by Lacordaire or Kiesenwetter due to characteristics which distinguish it from Coraebus. However Andrew Murray, a Scottish naturalist, thought of Polyonychus as a useful section of Coraebus arguing that it is worthy of being preserved as such because of how many species are within Coraebus.^[3]

Species

There are currently six species that belong to this genus. They are listed below:^[1]

Polyonychus apicalis (Kerremans, 1912)
Polyonychus dessumi (Descarpentries & Villiers, 1966)
Polyonychus mucidus Chevrolat, 1838 (Type species)
Polyonychus nigropictus (Gory & Laporte, 1839)
Polyonychus proximus (Kerremans, 1890)
Polyonychus tricolor (Saunders, 1866)

References

1 2 Bellamy, C. L. (2010). "Genus Polyonychus". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 14 Jun 2011.
↑ Bellamy, CL (1988). "The classification and phylogeny of the Australian Coroebini, Bedel, with a revision of the genera Paracephala, Meliboeithon and Dinocephalia (Coleoptera : Buprestidae : Agrilinae)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 2 (2): 413–453. doi:10.1071/IT9880413.
↑ "The Annals and magazine of natural history". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. Series 4. 2 (7–12). 1868. ISSN 0374-5481. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Bellamy, C. L. (2010). "Genus Polyonychus". A Checklist of World Buprestoidea. Retrieved 14 Jun 2011.

[2] Bellamy, CL (1988). "The classification and phylogeny of the Australian Coroebini, Bedel, with a revision of the genera Paracephala, Meliboeithon and Dinocephalia (Coleoptera : Buprestidae : Agrilinae)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 2 (2): 413–453. doi:10.1071/IT9880413.

[3] "The Annals and magazine of natural history". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. Series 4. 2 (7–12). 1868. ISSN 0374-5481. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06.

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