Paraplea
Genus of true bugs
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Paraplea is a genus of pygmy backswimmers in the family Pleidae that occur in Africa, Australia, southern Asia, southern North America, and the Caribbean.[1] There are 21 described species in Paraplea.[2][3][4]
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| Paraplea | |
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| Paraplea melanodera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Pleidae |
| Genus: | Paraplea Esaki & China, 1928 |
Species
These 21 species belong to the genus Paraplea:[1]
- Paraplea areolata (Paiva, 1918)
- Paraplea bifurcata Cook, 2021
- Paraplea brunni (Kirkaldy, 1898)
- Paraplea buenoi (Kirkaldy, 1904)
- Paraplea davaoensis Miyamoto, 1981
- Paraplea formosana (Esaki, 1915)
- Paraplea frontalis (Fieber, 1844)
- Paraplea halei (Lundblad, 1933)
- Paraplea indistinguenda (Matsumura, 1905)
- Paraplea japonica (Horváth, 1904)
- Paraplea lateromaculata Cook, 2020
- Paraplea liturata (Fieber, 1844)
- Paraplea melanodera Cook, 2020
- Paraplea nilionis (Drake & Chapman, 1953)
- Paraplea pallescens (Distant, 1906)
- Paraplea piccanina (Hutchinson, 1929)
- Paraplea puella (Barber, 1923)
- Paraplea pullula (Stål, 1855)
- Paraplea simplex Cook, 2025
- Paraplea sobrina (Stål, 1860)
- Paraplea vittifrons (Horváth, 1919)
