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Paratriarius

Paratriarius is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Paratriarius. They are found in North America and the Neotropics.

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Paratriarius
Paratriarius adonis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Subtribe: Diabroticina
Genus: Paratriarius
Schaeffer, 1906
Synonyms
  • Chanchamayia Bechyné, 1956

Paratriarius is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Paratriarius. They are found in North America and the Neotropics.123

Species

There are 52 species recognised in the genus Paratriarius4 including:

  • Paratriarius azureipennis Gahan, 1891
  • Paratriarius bipartitus (Baly, 1889)
  • Paratriarius coccineus (Baly, 1865)
  • Paratriarius cognatus (Baly, 1889)
  • Paratriarius coryphaea (Baly, 1886)
  • Paratriarius cruciatus (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Paratriarius curtisii (Baly, 1886)
  • Paratriarius denotatus (Gahan, 1891)
  • Paratriarius difformis (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Paratriarius dorsatus (Say, 1824)
  • Paratriarius flavifrons (Jacoby, 1886)
  • Paratriarius flavocinctus (Baly, 1886)
  • Paratriarius flavomarginatus (Baly, 1886)
  • Paratriarius limbatipennis (Baly, 1889)
  • Paratriarius longitarsis (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Paratriarius nicaraguensis (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Paratriarius ornatus (Baly, 1859)
  • Paratriarius pulcher (Baly, 1865)
  • Paratriarius rugatus (Baly, 1879)
  • Paratriarius smaragdinus (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Paratriarius staudingeri (Baly, 1889)
  • Paratriarius subimpressus (Jacoby, 1886)
  • Paratriarius suturalis (Baly, 1865)
  • Paratriarius triplagiatus (Baly, 1859)
  • Paratriarius tropica Weise, 1916
  • Paratriarius unifasciatus (Baly, 1889)
  • Paratriarius zonula (Baly, 1889)


References

References

  1. "Paratriarius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Paratriarius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Nie, Rui-E; Bezděk, Jan; Yang, Xing-Ke (2017-12-11). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
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