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Paraplectana
	Female Paraplectana tsushimensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Subfamily:	Cyrtarachninae s.l.
Genus:	Paraplectana; Brito Capello, 1867
Type species
	P. thorntoni; (Blackwall, 1865)
Species
	13, see text

Paraplectana is a genus of Asian and African orb-weaver spiders first described by F. de Brito Capello in 1867.^[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains thirteen species:^[1]

Paraplectana coccinella (Simon, 1890) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Nias Is.)
Paraplectana duodecimmaculata Simon, 1897 – Indonesia (Java)
Paraplectana gravelyi (Tikader, 1961) – India
Paraplectana hemisphaerica (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Sierra Leone
Paraplectana kittenbergeri Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
Paraplectana multimaculata Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, East Africa
Paraplectana rajashree Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India
Paraplectana sakaguchii Uyemura, 1938 – China, Korea, Japan
Paraplectana thorntoni (Blackwall, 1865) – Central Africa, Yemen
- Paraplectana t. occidentalis Strand, 1916 – West, Central Africa
Paraplectana tsushimensis Yamaguchi, 1960 – China, Taiwan, Japan
Paraplectana walleri (Blackwall, 1865) – West, Central Africa, Madagascar
- Paraplectana w. ashantensis Strand, 1907 – Ghana

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
^ Brito Capello, F. de (1867). "Descripçao de algunas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de Crustaceo e Arachnidios de Portugal e possessoes portuguezas do Ultramar". Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. New Series. 4 (1): 1–17.

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