Rhagovelia trailii (Buchanan-White, 1879)

Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra, Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia, Morales, Irina & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2022, New species, synonymies and records in the genus Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 5087 (1), pp. 1-34 : 24-26

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Neovelia trailii Buchanan-White, 1879: 487 .

Rhagovelia perfidiosa Bacon, 1948: 81 View in CoL . Syn. by Polhemus & Polhemus (1985: 168).

Rhagovelia traili View in CoL ; Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno (1908: 206), Polhemus & Polhemus (1985: 168), Polhemus (1997: 174), Pereira & Melo (2007: 645), Moreira et al. (2011: 26) View Cited Treatment , Padilla-Gil & Moreira (2013: 415), Moreira & Barbosa (2014: 599), Cordeiro & Moreira (2015: 21) View Cited Treatment , Floriano & Moreira (2015: 440), Magalhães et al. (2016: 591), Aristizábal-García (2017: 303), Magalhães et al. (2019: 395). Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Diagnosis. Body length: apterous male (~3.0), apterous female (~3.3), macropterous male (~3.5), macropterous female (~3.5). General color brown with silvery pruinose markings. Pronotum of apterous form completely covering mesonotum. Abdominal mediotergites V–VI pruinose laterally with ovate, brown spots centrally; VII with a darkyellowish spot centrally. Male jugum and proepisternum with minute, black denticles.Apterous male hind trochanter with 1–9 small subequal spines and one larger spine near apex. Apterous male hind femur with a long, sharp spine removed dorsally from the two main rows of spines. Apterous male hind tibia slightly arcuate, with small pegs throughout length and a straight apical spur. Posterolateral margins of male abdominal segment VII surrounding genital cavity without black denticles. Male paramere as in Polhemus (1997:185, fig. 131).Apterous female abdomen without median carina. Macropterous female pronotum without elevated posterior projection.

Distribution. BRAZIL ( White 1879). COLOMBIA: Amazonas (this work) ( Fig. 10A View FIGURE 10 ). FRENCH GUIANA ( Polhemus 1997). PERU ( Polhemus 1997). SURINAME ( Polhemus 1997). VENEZUELA ( Polhemus 1997).

Material examined. Amazonas: Leticia, Relleno Sanitario, Quebrada La Beatriz , Punto 31, XII.2013, (N. Tórres): 1 ♂ apterous, 2 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05613) .

References

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Cordeiro, I. & Moreira, F. (2015) New distributional data on aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from South America. Biodiversity Data Journal, 3, 1 - 30. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / BDJ. 3. e 4913

Floriano, C. F. B. & Moreira, F. F. F. (2015) A new species of Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 4018 (3), 437 - 443. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4018.3.7

Magalhaes, O. M., Moreira, F. F. F. & Galvao, C. (2016) A new species of Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Para State, with an updated key to Brazilian species of the robusta group. Zootaxa, 4171 (3), 586 - 594. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4171.3.12

Moreira, F. F. F., Barbosa, J. F., Ribero, J. R. I. & Alecrim, V. P. (2011) Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil. Zootaxa, 2958 (1), 1 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2958.1.1

Moreira, F. F. F. & Barbosa, J. (2014) A new Rhagovelia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, with a key to species of the robusta group known from the country. Zootaxa, 3790 (4), 595 - 600. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3790.4.8

Padilla-Gil, D. N. & Moreira, F. F. F. (2013) Checklist, taxonomy and distribution of the Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) of the Americas. Zootaxa, 3640, 409 - 424. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3640.3.5

Pereira, D. L. V. & Melo, A. L. (2007). Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta) from Pitinga, Amazonas, Brazil. Acta Amazonica, 37 (4), 643 - 648. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0044 - 59672007000400021

Polhemus, J. T. & Polhemus, D. A (1985). Studies on Neotropical Veliidae (Hemiptera) VIII: new species and notes. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 61,163 - 169.

Polhemus, D. A. (1997) Systematics of the genus Rhagovelia Mayr (heteroptera: velliidae) in the Western hemisphere (exclusive of the angustipes complex). Entomological Society of America, Lanham, 386 pp.

White, F. B. (1879) List of the Hemiptera collected in the Amazons by Prof. J. W. H. Trail, M. A., M. D., in the years 1873 - 1875, with descriptions of the new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 4, 267 - 276.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Geographic distributions in Colombia of A. Rhagovelia trailii and R. rubra; B. Rhagovelia venezuelana.

FIGURE 14. Specimens of the genus Rhagovelia recorded from Colombia, dorsal view: A. R. trailii (apterous male); B. R. venezuelana (apterous male); C. R. williamsi (apterous male); D. R. zeteki (apterous male); E. R. gaigei (apterous male).