Microvelia pulchella Westwood, 1834

dos Santos, Suzane E., Rodrigues, Juliana M. S., Couceiro, Sheyla R. M. & Moreira, Felipe F. F., 2021, Gerromorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Metropolitan Region of Santarem, Brazil, including three new species of Microvelia Westwood, 1834 (Veliidae: Microveliinae), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 68567-68567 : 68567

Microvelia pulchella Westwood, 1834

Microvelia pulchella - see Westwood (1834): pl. VI, fig. 5.

Velia (Microvelia) pulchella - see Westwood (1834): 647.

Hydroessa pulchella - see Herrich-Schäffer (1842): 37, pl. CXCIII, fig. 595.

Microvelia pulchella - see Amyot and Audinet-Serville (1843): 422.

Microvelia capitata - see Guérin-Ménéville (1857): 417 (syn. by Drake and Hussey 1955: 104; Smith and Polhemus 1978: 65).

Rhagovelia incerta - see Kirby (1890): 548 (syn. by Polhemus and Chapman 1979: 53).

Microvelia robusta - see Uhler (1894): 219 (syn. by Drake and Maldonado-Capriles 1954: 219).

Microvelia marginata - see Uhler (1894): 219; Kirkaldy and Torre-Bueno (1909): 207; Torre-Bueno (1910): 150; Banks (1910): 27; Barber (1914): 500; Van Duzee (1917): 433; Hungerford (1920): 127 (partim; misidentification).

Microvelia boreale - see Torre-Bueno (1910): 150 (nomen nudum).

Microvelia borealis - see Torre-Bueno (1916): 59 (syn. by Drake and Hussey 1955: 104).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S.E. Santos; sex: 8 macropterous?, 4 macropterous?; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Mojuí dos Campos; locality: Igarape Mojui dos Caboclos ; verbatimLatitude: 02°42'03.0"S; verbatimLongitude: 54°41'01.0"W; Event: verbatimEventDate: 02.X.2020; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: LETIA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S.E. Santos; sex: 1 macropterous?, 3 macropterous?; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Mojuí dos Campos; locality: Igarape Terra Preta ; verbatimLatitude: 02°43'09.1"S; verbatimLongitude: 54°40'20.7"W; Event: verbatimEventDate: 10.II.2020; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: LETIA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S.E. Santos; sex: 1 macropterous?, 1 macropterous?; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Mojuí dos Campos; locality: Igarape Terra Preta ; verbatimLatitude: 02°43'09.1"S; verbatimLongitude: 54°40'20.7"W; Event: verbatimEventDate: 24.II.2020; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: LETIA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S.E. Santos; sex: 1 macropterous?, 1 macropterous?; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Santarém; locality: Igarape Guarana ; verbatimLatitude: 02°46'25.9"S; verbatimLongitude: 54°23'20.6"W; Event: verbatimEventDate: 06.III.2020; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: LETIA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S.E. Santos; sex: 2 apterous?, 15 macropterous?, 18 macropterous?; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Santarém; locality: Igarape Jatoba ; verbatimLatitude: 02°34'17.9"S; verbatimLongitude: 54°51'36.8"W; Event: verbatimEventDate: 10.X.2020; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: LETIA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S.E. Santos; sex: 39 macropterous?, 34 macropterous?; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Santarém; verbatimLatitude: 02°27'32.6"S; verbatimLongitude: 54°44'48.4"W; Event: verbatimEventDate: 10.IV.2020; habitat: puddle; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: LETIA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: E.C. Oliveira; sex: 1 apterous?; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Santarém; locality: Lago Mapiri ; verbatimLatitude: 02°25'28.5"S; verbatimLongitude: 54°44'47.7"W; Event: verbatimEventDate: 18.II.2020; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: LETIA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Alaska, Anguilla, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Brazil (Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe), Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Jamaica, Klein Bonaire, Klein Curaçao, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saba, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Venezuela ( Moreira 2021e).

Notes

First records from the study area.

Photographs

Fig. 17 d, e, f