Paraplea
| Paraplea | |
|---|---|
| Paraplea melanodera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Pleidae |
| Genus: | Paraplea Esaki & China, 1928 |
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]
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)
References
- ^ a b "Paraplea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
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Cook, Jerry L.; Sites, Robert W.; Vitheepradit, Akekawat (2020). "The Pleidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) of Thailand, with the descriptions of two new species and a discussion of species from Southeast Asia". ZooKeys. 973: 35–68. doi:10.3897/zookeys.973.54026.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Cook, Jerry L. (2021). "Review of the Paraplea Esaki & China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Pleidae) of Australia, with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4985 (1): 81–90. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4985.1.4.
- ^ Cook, Jerry L. (2025). "Paraplea Esaki and China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pleidae) of Madagascar, a new species and redescription of Paraplea hovana (Kirkaldy, 1899)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 126 (4): 441–453. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.126.4.441.