title: Paraplectana
text: # Paraplectana
  
  Paraplectana is a genus of Asian and African orb-weaver spiders first described by F. de Brito Capello in 1867.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2019 it contains thirteen species:
  
  * Paraplectana coccinella (Thorell, 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
  