Plea (bug)

Plea
Plea minutissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Superfamily: Notonectoidea
Family: Pleidae
Genus: Plea
Leach, 1818[1]

Plea is a genus is a genus of pygmy backswimmers in the family Pleidae that occur in the Palearctic (Europe, North Africa, and Asia).[2]

Species

There are two valid species in the genus Plea:[2]

  • Plea cryptica Raupach, Charzinski, & Hendrich, 2024
  • Plea minutissima Leach, 1818


References

  1. ^ Leach WE (1818). On the Classification of the Natural Tribe of Insects Notonectides, with descriptions of the British Species. Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. 12, Part 1.
  2. ^ a b Raupach, Michael J.; Charzinski, Nele; Villastrigo, Adrian; Gossner, Martin M.; Niedringhaus, Rolf; Schäfer, Peter; Schmelzel, Sebastian; Straub, Gerhard; Hendrich, Lars (2024). "The discovery of an overseen pygmy backswimmer in Europe (Heteroptera, Nepomorpha, Pleidae)". Scientific Reports. 14: 28139. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-78224-6. hdl:10612/25096.
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