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 <small>(Paiva, 1918)</small>
- Paraplea bifurcata <small>Cook, 2021</small>
- Paraplea brunni <small>(Kirkaldy, 1898)</small>
- Paraplea buenoi <small>(Kirkaldy, 1904)</small>
- Paraplea davaoensis <small>Miyamoto, 1981</small>
- Paraplea formosana <small>(Esaki, 1915)</small>
- Paraplea frontalis <small>(Fieber, 1844)</small>
- Paraplea halei <small>(Lundblad, 1933)</small>
- Paraplea indistinguenda <small>(Matsumura, 1905)</small>
- Paraplea japonica <small>(Horváth, 1904)</small>
- Paraplea lateromaculata <small>Cook, 2020</small>
- Paraplea liturata <small>(Fieber, 1844)</small>
- Paraplea melanodera <small>Cook, 2020</small>
- Paraplea nilionis <small>(Drake & Chapman, 1953)</small>
- Paraplea pallescens <small>(Distant, 1906)</small>
- Paraplea piccanina <small>(Hutchinson, 1929)</small>
- Paraplea puella <small>(Barber, 1923)</small>
- Paraplea pullula <small>(StÃÂ¥l, 1855)</small>
- Paraplea simplex <small>Cook, 2025</small>
- Paraplea sobrina <small>(StÃÂ¥l, 1860)</small>
- Paraplea vittifrons <small>(Horváth, 1919)</small>
References