Paravelia capillata (Drake & Harris)

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 : 24-26

Paravelia capillata (Drake & Harris)

( Figs 14 B, 16B–C)

Velia capillata Drake & Harris, 1933:45 . [Original description]

Velia capitata [sic]: Drake 1957, 138. [ P. cognata elevated to specific level] Paravelia capillata: Polhemus 1976 , 512. [New combination; checklist] Paravelia capillata: Moreira et al. 2011b , 20. [Checklist]

Macropterous male. BL 4.95; HL 0.75; HW 0.75; ANT I 0.96, ANT II 0.85, ANT III 0.93, ANT IV 0.88; EYE 0.25; PL 1.70; PW 1.60; FORELEG: FEM 1.28, TIB 1.25, TAR I 0.10, TAR II 0.12, TAR III 0.30; MIDLEG: FEM 1.82, TIB 1.75, TAR I 0.10, TAR II 0.27, TAR III 0.33; HINDLEG: FEM 2.10, TIB 1.93, TAR I 0.10, TAR II 0.37, TAR III 0.40. Macropterous female. BL 4.55; HL 0.75; HW 0.71; ANT I 0.92, ANT II 0.82, ANT III 0.88, ANT IV 0.87; EYE 0.20; PL 1.55; PW 1.50; FORELEG: FEM 1.30, TIB 1.21, TAR I 0.10, TAR II 0.12, TAR III 0.27; MIDLEG: FEM 1.77, TIB 1.73, TAR I 0.10, TAR II 0.25, TAR III 0.30; HINDLEG: FEM 1.92, TIB 1.87, TAR I 0.11, TAR II 0.37, TAR III 0.40.

Diagnosis. Head brown to orange brown. Pronotum brownish, with a median darker band. Forewings dark brown, with costal margin and veins lighter; a whitish basal macula, elongated and narrow, situated below the posterior margin of pronotum; pruinosity between cells; at apex another pair of rounded whitish maculae ( Fig. 14 B). Acetabula, coxae, trochanters, and basal half of femora yellowish; remainder of legs brown with darker areas. Body hirsute, without minute black denticle. Anterior lobe of pronotum without pubescence or pruinosity. Tibiae on inner surface with rounded darker denticles; hind femur without spines. Abdominal sternite VII of male with posterior margin slightly excavated medially, without projections or lobes. Genital segment I of male with posterior margin slightly concave medially, and long dark setae. Paramere elongated, narrow, with flattened and rounded apex ( Figs 16 B–C).

Discussion. This species is known only by the macropterous form, and morphologically similar to P. cognata ( Drake & Harris, 1933) , by pilosity and color of the body, and maculae pattern on the forewings. These species are differentiated by the size ( P. capillata 4.20–4.95; P. cognata 5.50) and presence of denticles on inner margins of tibiae in P. capillata , absent in P. cognata .

Material examined. Brazil, Mato Grosso: 1 macropterous male, 1 macropterous female ( MZUSP), Nova Xavantina, Rio Antártico basin, Córrego Bacaba, 14°43'10.5"S / 52°21'35.07"W, 04.VII.2011, (N.F.S. Giehl & P.V.B. Fonseca).

Figures

FIGURE 14. Dorsal view, (A) Paravelia bullialata, (B) P. capillata, (C) P. capixaba (macropterous), (D) P. capixaba (apterous).

FIGURE 16. Lateral view of genital capsule of male, (A) Paravelia bullialata, (B) P. capillata, (C) apex of paramere of P. capillata in frontal view, (D) P. capixaba, (E) P. conata, (F) P. dilatata, (G) P. foveata, (H) P. itatiayana, (I) P. lanemeloi.