Rhagovelia tenuipes Champion, 1898

Canejo, Rafael P. R., Melo, Alan Lane De & Rodrigues, Higor D. D., 2023, Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil, including a new synonymy, Zootaxa 5357 (2), pp. 151-185 : 176

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.2.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10017986

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0102A435-FFF0-6626-90B7-B357FBB1E2B0

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scientific name

Rhagovelia tenuipes Champion, 1898
status

 

Rhagovelia tenuipes Champion, 1898 View in CoL

( Figs. 16D–F View FIGURE 16 , 18B View FIGURE 18 )

Rhagovelia tenuipes Champion, 1898: 137–138 View in CoL (original description).

Identification. Our specimens were identified based on the pronotum of the apterous form shorter than the dorsal length of the eye, not covering the mesonotum ( Figs. 16D, F View FIGURE 16 ); the anterior trochanter without an apical spine; the middle coxae black; the hind femur of both sexes with at least seven spines; abdominal mediotergites V–VII of both sexes shining black centrally; the male hind femur slightly longer than half of the body length; and the female laterotergites not reflected over the mediotergites ( Figs. 16D–F View FIGURE 16 ) ( Nieser & Melo 1997; Moreira & Ribeiro 2009).

Material examined. All specimens apterous. BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Norte: Natal, Rio Pitimbu - BR 101, 5°52’48.1”S, 35°13’32.6”W, 22-XII-2019, R GoogleMaps .P. R. Canejo leg. (1♂ CEAAVF); Natal, “ Ponte no Rio Pitimbu , 5°55’00.7”S, 35°11’54.0”W, 21-IV-2022, R GoogleMaps .P. R. Canejo leg. (2♂, 3♀ CEAAVF) .

BR

Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

InfraOrder

Gerromorpha

Family

Veliidae

SubFamily

Rhagoveliinae

Genus

Rhagovelia

Loc

Rhagovelia tenuipes Champion, 1898

Canejo, Rafael P. R., Melo, Alan Lane De & Rodrigues, Higor D. D. 2023
2023
Loc

Rhagovelia tenuipes

Champion, G. C. 1898: 138
1898
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