Paravelia platensis (Berg, 1883)

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5393 (1), pp. 1-86 : 75

Paravelia platensis (Berg, 1883)

Fig. 53C, F

Diagnosis. Body length approximately 5.0 mm; small black denticles completely absent from body; pronotal humeral angle never with spinose projection; posterior angle of pronotum rounded; forewings with a pair of elongated, basal white maculae and an apical white macula, without bubble-like structures; legs dark-brown; venter of abdomen not covered by punctations; posterior margin of male abdominal sternum VII medially extended, forming two small lobes on sides of a central concavity ( Rodrigues & Moreira 2022).

New records. BRAZIL — São Paulo • São José do Barreiro, do Paredão Waterfall, Bocaina — BOC 13 , puddles; –22.7124, –44.6283; 17.XI.2012; N Ferreira-Jr. leg.; 4 males, 3 females, CEIOC 81555 .

Distribution in Brazil. SP.

Figures

FIGURE 53. Collected specimens (A–C) and distribution in southeastern Brazil and adjacent areas (D–F). Gerromorpha, Veliidae. A. Paravelia basalis, macropterous male from Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro (−22.43, −44.62). B. Paravelia itatiayana, macropterous male from Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro (−22.4514, −44.6145). C. Paravelia platensis, brachypterous male from São José do Barreiro, São Paulo. D. Paravelia basalis. E. Paravelia itatiayana. F. Paravelia platensis. Stars indicate new records; circles indicate previous records. Scale bars: 2 mm.