Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984

Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Moreira, Felipe F. F., Nieser, Nico, Chen, Ping Ping, Melo, Alan L., Dias-Silva, Karina & Giehl, Nubia F. S., 2014, The genus Paravelia Breddin, 1898 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) in Brazil, with descriptions of eight new species, Zootaxa 3784 (1), pp. 1-47 : 32

Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984

( Figs 17 C)

Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984a: 341 . [Original description] Paravelia manausana: Polhemus & Polhemus 1991 , 207. [Habitat; identification key; new records] Paravelia manausana: Moreira et al. 2011b , 21. [Checklist]

Paravelia manausana: Heckman 2011 , 236. [Identification key]

Diagnosis. Male. BL 4.15, PW 1.60. Female. BL 4.10, PW 1.30. Body dark brown to black, without black denticles. Anterior lobe of pronotum with a pair of whitish subrectangular pubescent areas. Forewing with a basal whitish macula, starting from humeral angle and passing posterior margin of pronotum; at apex another suboval white macula, almost reaching posterior margin of wing ( Fig. 17 C). Hind femur with a row of small teeth on inner surface. Male hind tibia clavate. Male proctiger with an elevation on posterior half. Paramere elongated, with subtruncate apex.

Discussion. The only examined specimen is partly destroyed, which impeded the drawing of its genitalia; however, this structure was drawn by Polhemus & Polhemus (1991: 206, Figure 3 ). Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984 , together with P. itatiayana Drake, 1951 , P. gabrielae , and P. recens ( Drake & Harris, 1935) , are the Brazilian species recorded from water accumulated in bromeliads. It can be separated from those mainly by the body color, pattern of maculae of forewings ( Fig. 17 C), and shape of male paramere. Specimens of P. recens ( Fig. 18 A) and P. manausana can be collected on the same bromeliad and confounded at first sight when examined in alcohol. However, when dried, specimens present different coloration, which makes it easier to separate the two species.

Material examined. Brazil, Amazonas: 1 macropterous male ( INPA), Manaus, Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve, Acará, campinarana, in bromeliad, 03.X.2003, (S.R.S. Torreias, J. Fernandes & J. Vidal).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Paravelia amapaensis sp. nov. (A) Lateral view of genital capsule of male, (B) frontal view of projections on male proctiger. Paravelia bahiana sp. nov. First genital segment of male, (C) dorsal view, (D) lateral view; (E) lateral view of genital capsule of male, (F) posterior angle of pronotum.

FIGURE 17. Dorsal view, (A) Paravelia foveata, (B) P. lanemeloi (paratype), (C) P. manausana, (D) P. nieseri (holotype).

FIGURE 18. Dorsal view, (A) Paravelia recens, (B) P. rotundanotata, (C) P. splendoris (macropterous), (D) P. splendoris (micropterous).