Rhagovelia rivulosa Polhemus & Polhemus

Dias-Silva, Karina, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Giehl, Nubia França Da Silva, Nóbrega, Caroline Correa & Cabette, Helena Soares Ramos, 2013, Gerromorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of eastern Mato Grosso State, Brazil: checklist, new records, and species distribution modeling, Zootaxa 3736 (3), pp. 201-235 : 226

Rhagovelia rivulosa Polhemus & Polhemus

Distribution in Brazil: MT, MG, SC.

Biological aspects: Collections resulted in 19 specimens from fast flowing narrow streams shaded by the riparian forest, streams on rupestrian field with high illumination, on a stream draining from a dam, and on the Suiá-Miçú River. This wide variety of habitats indicates low environmental requirements for the occurrence of the species.

Comments: So far this species has been recorded only from the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest of Brazil.

Material examined: PT 46, (1♀), [nº 2024], 28.IX.2007. PT 42, (1♀), [nº 2048], 27.IX.2007; (5♀), [nº 2283], 23.V.2008. PT 49, (1♀), [nº 2115], 20.XII.2007. PT 0 9, (2♂), [nº 2449], 19.IX.2010. PT 0 7, (1♂), [nº2457], 26.IX.2010; (3♂, 1♀), [nº 3863], 26.IX.2010; (1♂), [nº 3868], 26.IX.2010. PT 20, (1♀), [nº 2480], 05.IV.2004. PT 30, (2♀), [nº 2958], 03.XI.2007.