Velia (Plesiovelia) mariae Tamanini, 1971

Cianferoni, Fabio, 2019, Review of the aquatic Hemiptera from Cephalonia, with a checklist for the Ionian Islands, Greece (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha), Zootaxa 4576 (1) : -

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D12CE703-5871-400B-B9B5-76F13544049B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932892
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7B6C8797-4F0A-FFC3-FAD0-FBC71628F914
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Velia (Plesiovelia) mariae Tamanini, 1971
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Velia (Plesiovelia) mariae Tamanini, 1971 View in CoL

Velia (Plesiovelia) helenae Tamanini, 1970 View in CoL (junior homonym of Velia helenae Hungerford, 1929 View in CoL )

Material examined. Tzanata, stream, ca. 90 m a.s.l., 38.15069° N 20.73826° E (WGS84; uncertainty = 100 m), 23.VII.2018, F. Cianferoni, F. Graziani, F. Ceccolini leg., 20 ♂♂, 21 ♀♀ apt., 15 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀ macr. CFCF; idem, 1 ♀ macr., CFCC ; idem, 1 ♀ macr. CFGR ; Kateleios , stream, 35 m a.s.l., 38.07759° N 20.75291° E ( WGS84 ; uncertainty = 15 m), 25.VII.2018, F. Cianferoni, F. Graziani, F. Ceccolini leg., 6 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀ apt., 1 ♀ macr., CFCF GoogleMaps ; Karavomylos , Melissani Cave , Limni (= lake) Melissani, 25 m a.s.l., 38.25698° N 20.62365° E ( WGS84 ; uncertainty = 15 m), 26.VII.2018, F. Cianferoni, F. Graziani, F. Ceccolini leg., 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ apt., CFCF GoogleMaps .

General distribution. This species occurs widely in the Balkan Peninsula ( Greece, Bulgaria, European Turkey), including some major Greek islands; in the Ionian islands it was recorded in Lefkada ( Csabai et al. 2017). However, a more precise distribution of this species extending to Asia still needs to be defined. In addition to Balkans, this species was recorded from Asian Turkey and Iran ( Samin et al. 2011), but the latter record needs confirmation ( Aukema et al. 2013, Csabai et al. 2017).

Remarks. This is the first record for Cephalonia. The status of Velia mariae , previously misidentified with the Cretan endemic V. r. rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941, has recently been clarified by Csabai et al. (2017) and Berchi et al. (2018b).