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Paragrilus
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 88
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Collections
- IFIT-CP
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Paragrilus is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles.
These beetles are native to the Americas. They are dark in color and not very shiny in texture. At least one group of species in this genus is commonly found on plants of the genus Sida.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paragrilus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.