| Neoplea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Pleidae |
| Genus: | Neoplea Esaki & China, 1928 |
Neoplea is a genus of pygmy backswimmers in the family Pleidae that occur in North and South America.1 There are at least 25 described species in Neoplea, with numerous undescribed species.23
Species
These species belong to the genus Neoplea:23
- Neoplea absona (Drake & Chapman, 1953)
- Neoplea aenea Cook, 2026
- Neoplea argentina (Drake & Chapman, 1953)
- Neoplea apopkana (Drake & Chapman, 1953)
- Neoplea borellii (Kirkaldy, 1899)
- Neoplea breviscutellum Cook, 2026
- Neoplea centocorpus Cook, 2026
- Neoplea chichimeca Cook, 2026
- Neoplea gauchita Bachmann, 1968
- Neoplea globoidea Nieser, 1975
- Neoplea harnedi (Drake, 1922)
- Neoplea hyaloderma Cook, Mondragón-F., & Morales, 2020
- Neoplea lingula Roback & Nieser, 1974
- Neoplea maculosa (Berg, 1879)
- Neoplea maurochilus Cook, 2026
- Neoplea melanosoma Cook, Mondragón-F., & Morales, 2020
- Neoplea mexicana (Drake & Chapman, 1953)
- Neoplea micropunctata Cook, 2026
- Neoplea notana (Drake & Chapman, 1953)
- Neoplea polhemusi Cook, 2026
- Neoplea punctifer (Barber, 1923)
- Neoplea semipicta (Horváth, 1918)
- Neoplea striola (Fieber, 1844)
- Neoplea tenuistyla Roback, & Nieser, 1974
- Neoplea umbraticus Cook, 2026
References
References
- "Neoplea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- Sublett, Clayton A.; Cook, Jerry L. (2015). ""Morphology of the 1st gonapophysis in the genus Neoplea (Hemiptera: Neteroptera: Pleidae), including an evaluation of its taxonomic importance". Florida Entomologist. 98 (2): 704–713. doi:10.1653/024.098.0246.
- Cook, Jerry L. (2026). "Neoplea Esaki and China (Hemiptera: Pleidae) of Mexico, with the description of eight new species". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 127 (4): 657–698. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.127.4.657.