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Paraplea puella

  • 1. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España.
  • 2. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 3. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
  • 4. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos Continentales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.

Description

Paraplea puella (Barber, 1923)

Geographic distribution. Guam (Zack et al. 2007), United States, Mexico (Drake & Chapman 1953b), Belize (Rejmánková et al. 2006), Cuba (Barber 1939), Jamaica (Nieser 1969b), Dominican Republic (Drake & Maldonado-Capriles 1956), Puerto Rico (Barber 1923), U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Martin (Nieser 1969b), Guadeloupe (Barber 1923), Martinique (Nieser 1969b), Nicaragua (Bachmann 1997), Panama (Barber 1939), Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Barbados (Nieser 1969b), St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada (Barber 1939), Trinidad & Tobago (Drake & Chapman 1953b), Colombia (Alvarez & Roldán-Pérez 1983), Venezuela, Suriname (Nieser 1969b), Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Bachmann 1979b), Peru (Peralta-Argomeda & Huamantinco-Araujo 2014).

Distribution in Peru. Lima (Peralta-Argomeda & Huamantinco-Araujo 2014).

Note. Specimens originally identified as Paraplea sp. by Bachmann (1979) were later attributed to P. puella by Bachmann (1997).

Notes

Published as part of Peralta-Argomeda, Jorge Luis, Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Huamantinco-Araujo, Ana & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2024, Checklist of the aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha) of Peru, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 5467 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5467.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613746

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References

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  • Zack, R. S., Moore, A. & Miller, R. H. (2007) First record of a pygmy backswimmer (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pleidae) from Micronesia. Zootaxa, 1617 (1), 67 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1617.1.4
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  • Rejmankova, E., Grieco, J., Achee, N., Masuoka, P., Pope, K., Roberts, D. & Higashi, R. M. (2006) Freshwater community interactions and malaria. In: Collinge, S. K. & Ray, C. (Eds.), Disease Ecology: Community structure and pathogen dynamics. Oxford Academic, Oxford, pp. 90 - 104. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / acprof: oso / 9780198567080.003.0007
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