Rhagovelia perija Polhemus, 1997

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan, Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia, Morales, Irina, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 226-251 : 240

Rhagovelia perija Polhemus, 1997

( Figs 30 , 35 )

New records. PANAMA • 1 apterous male, 1 apterous female; Panama, Plantation Road, dry creek, puddle ; 9.08556° N, - 79.65841° W; 17 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79930 .

Remarks. Rhagovelia perija was described from the Perija Mountain Range, northern Colombia ( Polhemus 1997), and subsequently recorded from Quindío ( Cobos-Vallejo et al. 2007) and Santander ( Aristizábal-García 2017) departments in the same country. We present here the first record of this species from Panama. Rhagovelia elegans and Tachygerris opacus have been collected in the same pools remaining from a dry creek as R. perija .

Figures

FIGURES 28–31. Habitus, dorsal view. 28–29, Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894. 28, Apterous. 29, Macropterous. 30, R. perija Polhemus, 1997. 31, R. rosensis Padilla-Gil, 2011. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.

FIGURES 32–35. Distribution of new records from Panamá. 32, Mesovelia mulsanti White, 1879 in blue circles; M. zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941 in green triangle. 33, Lipogomphus leucostictus (Champion, 1898) in yellow circle; Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857 in red circle; Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860) in blue triangle. 34, Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) raspa (Hungerford, 1929) in pink circle. 35, Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894 in orange hexagon; R. perija Polhemus, 1997 in purple triangle; R. rosensis Padilla-Gil, 2011 in green circles.