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Paratorchus

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Paratorchus
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Paratorchus

McColl, 1985

Paratorchus is a genus of beetles.

Placement

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Paratorchus is uncontroversially placed in the tribe Osoriini of the subfamily Osoriinae.

Distribution

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Paratorchus is indigenous to the Neotropical realm and the Australasian realm (New Zealand).

Recognition

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Paratorchus differs from Holotrochus only by having reduced eyes and elytra with indistinct sutural striae.

References

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  • 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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