Parataenia

{{short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Italic title}}

{{Taxobox

|image=Parataenia orbicularis (26435156401).jpg

|image_caption=Parataenia orbicularis

| name = Parataenia

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Coleoptera

| subordo = Polyphaga

| superfamilia = Buprestoidea

| familia = Buprestidae

| genus = Parataenia

| genus_authority = Kerremans, 1892

}}

Parataenia is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:{{Cite web|access-date=2021-09-07|title=The world of jewel beetles|date=2013|last1= Bellamy|first1=C.L.|url=https://cerambycids.com/buprestidae/WorldCat/Classif/chrysochroinae.htm}}

• Parataenia aeneonigra Kerremans, 1909
• Parataenia chrysochlora (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)
• Parataenia fairmairei Kerremans, 1898
• Parataenia fugax Harold, 1878
• Parataenia orbicularis Kerremans, 1892
• Parataenia simplicicollis Kerremans, 1892