Rhagovelia robusta Gould

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 : 227

Rhagovelia robusta Gould

Distribution in Brazil: PA, SE, MT!, GO, MG, ES, SP, RJ, SC.

Biological aspects: More than 100 specimens have been collected on narrow streams of 1st to 3rd orders presenting from well-preserved riparian vegetation to pasture on the margins and on a 5th order river.

Comments: This species has a wide geographical distribution, occurring on all Brazilian macrorregions, but is herein recorded for the first time from MT ( Fig. 16 ). So far it has been found on Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes. According to the modeling, the potential distribution of R. robusta ranges from the southern portion of northeastern Brazil to the southern area of the country, including small areas of the northern states of PA and RO.

Material examined: PT 0 8, (18♂, 16♀), [nº 15], 30.IV.2003; (1♂, 1♀), [nº 35], (2♂, 4♀), [nº 100], (6♂, 6♀), [nº 116], (2♂), [nº 118], (1♂), [nº 145], 10.V.2003; (2♀), [nº 362], 17.II.2004; (3♀), [nº 430], (2♂), [nº440], 06.IV.2004. PT 20, (17♀), [nº 134], 10.VI.2003. PT 38, (4♂, 1♀), [nº 452], 23.IX.2003. PT 42, (3♀), [nº 2172], 27.IX.2007. PT 15, (1♂), [nº2931], 12.IX.2007. PT 14, (2♂), [nº 2940, nº2965], 06.XI.2007; (3♂), [nº 2967], 16.IX.2007. PT 32, (7♀), [nº 3154], 02.VII.2007.

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FIGURE 16. Predicted distribution of Rhagovelia robusta in Brazil based on literature and collections on eastern Mato Grosso.