Paratropes (lat.) - a genus of insects from the family of the Ectobiidae of the cockroach order. The range of the genus covers Central and South America from Mexico in the north to French Guiana in the east and Brazil and Peru in the south.
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| Paratropes Serville , 1838 | ||||||||||||||
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There are 13 species in the genus Paratropes :
- Paratropes aequatorialis Saussure , 1864 - Brazil , Bolivia and Ecuador ;
- Paratropes bilunata ( Saussure & Zehntner , 1893) - Costa Rica and Panama ;
- Paratropes biolleyi (Saussure & Zehntner, 1893) - Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia ;
- Paratropes elegans ( Burmeister , 1838) - Guyana , Suriname , French Guiana , Brazil;
- Paratropes heydeniana Saussure, 1864 - Brazil;
- Paratropes lateralis ( Eschscholtz , 1822) - Brazil;
- Paratropes lycoides Serville, 1838 - Brazil;
- Paratropes metae Hebard , 1921 - Colombia;
- Paratropes mexicana Brunner von Wattenwyl , 1865 - Mexico ;
- Paratropes otunensis Salazar , 2004 - Colombia;
- Paratropes pensa Rehn , 1928 - Peru ;
- Paratropes phalerata ( Erichson , 1848) - Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and the island of Trinidad ;
- Paratropes seabrai Rocha e Silva & Aguiar , 1978 - Brazil.
Links
- Beccaloni, GW 2007. Genus Paratropes Serville, 1838 . Blattodea Species File Online. Version 5.0 / 5.0.