Paria (beetle)

Paria is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. There are about 40 described species in Paria in North and South America, 19 of which are known north of Mexico. The genus is very similar to Typophorus.

Species

• Paria aeneipennis (Baly, 1878)
• Paria aemula Weise, 1921
• Paria aphthonina Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961
• Paria arizonensis Wilcox, 1957
• Paria aterrima (Olivier, 1808)
• Paria atripennis (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Paria badia Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961
• Paria barnesi Wilcox, 1957
• Paria binotata Jacoby, 1891
• Paria blatchleyi Wilcox, 1957
• Paria brunnea Jacoby, 1882
• Paria canella (Fabricius, 1801)
• Paria corumbana (Bechyné, 1951)
• Paria degenerata Weise, 1921
• Paria desculpta Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961
• Paria epimeralis (Bechyné, 1955)
• Paria erythopa (Lefèvre, 1888)
• Paria festinata (Bechyné, 1950)
• Paria fragariae Wilcox, 1954 (strawberry rootworm) (may be a species complex?) Paria fragariae fragariae Wilcox, 1954 Paria fragariae kirki Balsbaugh, 1970
• Paria frosti Wilcox, 1957
• Paria fulvipennis (Lefèvre, 1884)
• Paria geniculata (Lefèvre, 1878)
• Paria horvathi (Bechyné, 1955)
• Paria laevipennis Jacoby, 1882
• Paria lepidoptera Bechyné, 1951
• Paria mesostigma Bechyné, 1954
• Paria montanella (Bechyné, 1951)
• Paria nigripennis (Lefèvre, 1884)
• Paria nigronotata (Lefèvre, 1877)
• Paria obliquata Bechyné, 1951 Paria obliquata capitata Bechyné, 1957 Paria obliquata obliquata Bechyné, 1951
• Paria opacicollis LeConte, 1859 (oak paria) Paria opacicollis opacicollis LeConte, 1859 Paria opacicollis wenzeli Wilcox, 1957
• Paria picta Jacoby, 1891
• Paria pratensis Balsbaugh, 1970
• Paria pusilla (Lefèvre, 1876)
• Paria quadriguttata LeConte, 1858 (willow paria)
• Paria quadrinotata (Say, 1824)
• Paria quadriplagiata (Jacoby, 1876)
• Paria scutellaris (Notman, 1920)
• Paria sellata (Horn, 1892)
• Paria sexnotata (Say, 1824) (juniper paria)
• Paria thoracica (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
• Paria tibialis Jacoby, 1882
• Paria tincta (Bechyné, 1957)
• Paria virginiae Wilcox, 1957
• Paria vittaticollis Baly, 1878
• Paria wilcoxi Balsbaugh, 1970

Species moved to Typophorus:

• Paria jacobyi (Lefèvre, 1884) Paria jacobyi atramentaria Weise, 1921 Paria jacobyi jacobyi (Lefèvre, 1884)
• Paria maculigera Lefèvre, 1888
• Paria nigra Weise, 1921
• Paria nigritarsis Jacoby, 1882
• Paria signata (Lefèvre, 1891)

Species moved to other genera:

• Paria gounellei Lefèvre, 1888: moved to Phytoparia
• Paria stigmula Lefèvre, 1888: moved to Tijucana
• Paria vitticollis Jacoby, 1882: moved to Tijucana

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.