Paratropes

Paratropes is a genus of cockroaches within the family Ectobiidae. There are currently 14 species assigned to the genus.^[1][2] Members of this genus are distributed across North and South America in countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Peru.^[3]

Paratropes
Paratropes aequatorialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Ectobiidae
Subfamily:	Nyctiborinae
Genus:	Paratropes Serville, 1838

Species

• Paratropes aequatorialis Saussure, 1864
• Paratropes bilunata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1893)
• Paratropes biolleyi (Saussure & Zehntner, 1893)
• Paratropes elegans (Burmeister, 1838)
• † Paratropes fossilis Vršanský & Anisyutkin, 2008
• Paratropes heydeniana Saussure, 1864
• Paratropes lateralis (Eschscholtz, 1822)
• Paratropes lycoides Serville, 1838
• Paratropes metae Hebard, 1921
• Paratropes mexicana Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865
• Paratropes otunensis Salazar, 2004
• Paratropes pensa Rehn, 1928
• Paratropes phalerata (Erichson, 1848)
• Paratropes seabrai Rocha e Silva & Aguiar, 1978