Stridulivelia astralis (Drake & Harris)

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 : 231

Stridulivelia astralis (Drake & Harris)

Distribution in Brazil: TO, MT, MG, MS.

Biological aspects: A single representative of this species has been collected on a lentic environment with hydrophytes, but the species had previously been found also on running water (Polhemus & Spangler 1995).

Comments: The distribution of S. astralis includes Argentina , Paraguay and the North, Central-West, and Southeast macrorregions of Brazil, where it was collected on the Cerrado and Pantanal biomes. The species had been previously recorded from the study area on the upper Xingu River Basin (Gaúcha do Norte) by Polhemus and Spangler (1995).

Material examined: PT 0 2, (1♀), [nº 972], 22.V.2004.