Paratorchus is a genus of beetles.
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Genus: | Paratorchus McColl, 1985
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Placement
editParatorchus is uncontroversially placed in the tribe Osoriini of the subfamily Osoriinae.
Distribution
editParatorchus is indigenous to the Neotropical realm and the Australasian realm (New Zealand).
Recognition
editParatorchus differs from Holotrochus only by having reduced eyes and elytra with indistinct sutural striae.
References
edit- Irmler, U. 2015: New Neotropical genera and species of the tribe Osoriini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae). Beiträge zur entomologie (ISSN 0005-805X), 65(1): 173–196. Abstract
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