Strongylovelia Esaki, 1924

Ye, Zhen, Chen, Pingping & Bu, Wenjun, 2015, A review of the Strongylovelia Esaki, 1924 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3920 (4), pp. 534-544 : 535

Strongylovelia Esaki, 1924

Strongylovelia Esaki, 1924: 228 . Type species by original designation: S. formosa Esaki, 1924 . Strongylovelia: Lansbury & Zettel 1997: 53 ; Chen et al. 2005: 272; Zettel & Tran 2006: 72.

Diagnosis. Small-sized veliids (1.2–1.9 mm), form apterous or macropterous; body in apterous morph ovoid in male and tear-shaped in female; thorax and usually also abdomen dorsally with distinctly yellowish marks; antennae long and slender, segment III longest; pronotum of apterous morph very short, mesonotum usually fused with metanotum together forming a rounded and distinctly raised hemispheroid; legs relatively slender, fore legs short, second tarsal segment three times as long as first; middle legs longest, first tarsal segment twice as long as second; hind legs short, first tarsal segment subequal to second; abdomen short, considerably narrowed towards the caudal apex, connexiva usually elevated dorsally.

This genus seems to be closely related to the genus Entomovelia , but differs by being smaller in size; by having the dorsal thorax and abdomen usually bearing yellowish marks; by having the mesonotum usually fused with the metanotum so that these together form a rounded and distinctly raised hemispheroid; in the second antennal segment being longer than the first segment; and in having the tarsal segments of the hind legs subequal in length.

Distribution. China, India, Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra, Waleakodi near Sulawesi), New Guinea, New Britain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam.