Paratriarius coccineus

Paratriarius coccineus is a species of skeletonizing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It was first described as Diabrotica coccinea by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1865.^[1] It was later treated as a Synbrotica species by Bechyné in 1956,^[2] and subsequently listed under genus Paratriarius in the last world catalogue of Galerucinae.^[3] A syntype of the species is held in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London.^[4]

Paratriarius coccineus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Paratriarius
Species:	P. coccineus
Binomial name
Paratriarius coccineus (Baly, 1865)