''Paratriarius'' is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family

Chrysomelidae The beetle family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families. Numerous s ...

. There are more than 20 described species in ''Paratriarius''. They are found in North America and the

Neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeog ...

Species

There are 52 species recognised in the genus ''Paratriarius'' including: * '' Paratriarius azureipennis'' Gahan, 1891 * '' Paratriarius bipartitus'' (Baly, 1889) * '' Paratriarius coccineus'' (Baly, 1865) * '' Paratriarius cognatus'' (Baly, 1889) * '' Paratriarius coryphaea'' (Baly, 1886) * '' 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)

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