| Paraplea | |
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| Paraplea melanodera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| 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.234
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
References
- "Paraplea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
- 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. PMC 7550392.
- 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.