Plea (bug)
| Plea | |
|---|---|
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| Plea minutissima | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| 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
[edit]There are two valid species in the genus Plea:[2]
- Plea cryptica Raupach, Charzinski, & Hendrich, 2024
- Plea minutissima Leach, 1818
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 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.
External links
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Media related to Plea at Wikimedia Commons
