Paratrikona turritella Blake, 1937

Simões, Marianna V. P., 2017, Revision of the Greater Antilles genus Paratrikona Spaeth, 1923 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Dorynotini), Zootaxa 4238 (3), pp. 417-425 : 424

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5695098
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scientific name	Paratrikona turritella Blake, 1937
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Paratrikona turritella Blake, 1937 View in CoL

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Paratrikona turritella Blake, 1937:76 View in CoL (type locality: ‘ Sierra Maestra , Oriente Province, Cuba’)

Type specimen holotype (male), pinned: ‘Sierra Maestra, Cuba | Julio 10-20 de 1922 | Col. C. H. Ballou y | S. C. Bruner Alt. | 1100-1300 m [sl, p] || Paratrikona | turritella | Blake [cb, hw] || Type No. | 51837 | USNM [r, cb, p,]” ( USNM).

Diagnosis. Paratrikona turritella is characterized by the yellow tegument, pronotum rugose, elytra with coarse puncturation, wider than intervals, with postscutellar elevation present, high and angulate followed by concave slope.

Remarks. This species is known only from the type specimen. Further remarks under P. lerouxii .

Distribution. Cuba (Sierra Maestra) ( Blake, 1937).