Microvelia venustatis Drake and Harris, 1933

Moreira, F. F. F., Nessimian, J. L., Rúdio, J. A. & Salles, F. F., 2010, New species and new records of Veliidae from Espírito Santo State and adjacent Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with notes on nomenclature (Insecta: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha), Journal of Natural History 44 (45 - 46), pp. 2761-2801 : 2792

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2010.512423

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scientific name

Microvelia venustatis Drake and Harris, 1933
status

 

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This species was known from Brazil (AM, MG, RJ, SC), Peru, Paraguay and Argentina ( Drake and Hussey 1951; Drake and Plaumann 1955; Nieser and Melo 1997; Torres et al. 2007; Pereira and Melo 2007), and is here recorded for the first time from Espírito Santo State.

Examined material

Brazil: Espírito Santo – Sooretama, Reserva Biológica de Sooretama , córrego da estrada do meio, 14 July 2008, (J.A. Rúdio and F.F. Salles): 1 apterous male, 3 apterous females .

Drake CJ, Hussey RF. 1951. Concerning some American Microvelia (Hemiptera: Veliidae). Fla Entomol. 34 (4): 137 - 145.

Drake CJ, Plaumann F. 1955. Some Microvelia from Southern Brazil (Hemiptera: Veliidae). Bull South Calif Acad Sci. 54 (1): 22 - 24.

Nieser N, Melo AL. 1997. Os Heteropteros Aquaticos de Minas Gerais. Guia Introdutorio com Chave de Identificacao para as Especies de Nepomorpha e Gerromorpha. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG. 180 pp.

Pereira DLV, Melo AL. 2007. Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta) from Pitinga, Amazonas, Brazil. Acta Amazon. 37 (4): 643 - 648.

Torres PLM, Mazzucconi SA, Michat CM. 2007. Los coleopteros y heteropteros acuaticos del Parque Nacional El Palmar (Provincia de Entre Rios, Argentina): lista faunistica, diversidad y distribucion. Rev Soc Entomol Argent 66 (3 - 4): 127 - 154.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

Genus

Microvelia