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Paraplea
Sign in to saveParaplea is a genus of pygmy backswimmers in the family Pleidae that occur in Africa, Australia, southern Asia, southern North America, and the Caribbean. There are 21 described species in Paraplea.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHemiptera
- FamilyPleidae
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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. There are 21 described species in Paraplea.
==Species== These 21 species belong to the genus Paraplea: 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)