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Issue: Vol. 4238 No. 3: 6 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.8
Page range: 417–425
Abstract views: 92
PDF downloaded: 4

Revision of the Greater Antilles genus Paratrikona Spaeth, 1923 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Dorynotini)

Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A.
Coleoptera tortoise beetles new species key to species Neotropics

Abstract

The Greater Antilles genus Paratrikona is revised. One new species is described from Cuba: Paratrikona blakeae Simões new species. An updated identification key to the species of the genus and new distributional records are provided.

 

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