Paratorchus is a genus of beetles.
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| Genus: | Paratorchus McColl, 1985
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Placement edit
Paratorchus is uncontroversially placed in the tribe Osoriini of the subfamily Osoriinae.
Distribution edit
Paratorchus is indigenous to the Neotropical realm and the Australasian realm (New Zealand).
Recognition edit
Paratorchus 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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