Rhagovelia minutissima Hungerford & Matsuda, 1961

Zettel, Herbert, Laciny, Alice & Freitag, Hendrik, 2020, Review of the genus Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Veliidae) in the Palawan biogeographic region, the Philippines, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68, pp. 810-837 : 813

Rhagovelia minutissima Hungerford & Matsuda, 1961

( Figs. 1A, B , 7A, B , 11B )

Rhagovelia (Neorhagovelia) minutissima Hungerford & Matsuda, 1961: 267–268 .

Rhagovelia minutissima – Zettel, 1994b: 38–39; Chen et al., 2005: 439.

Material reported by Zettel (1994b). Holotype (apterous male, FMNH; genitalia missing) and allotype (apterous female, FMNH) from Busuanga Island, Dimaniang, CNHM-Philippine Zoological Expedition. The former barrio Dimaniang was not drawn in the map of Hoogstraal (1951: 69), but geographic coordinates (12.0407148°N, 120.1450728°E) were presented by Brown et al. (2018).

Figures

Fig. 1. Habitus of Rhagovelia species. A, R. minutissima, apterous male; B, R. minutissima, apterous female; C, R. palawanensis, apterous male; D, R. palawanensis, apterous female.

Fig. 7. Left parameres of Rhagovelia species, lateral view. A, R. minutissima; B, R. palawanensis; C, R. matillanoi, new species; D, R. estrella; E, R. abbreviata, new species; F, R. lansburyi; G, R. kawakamii hoberlandti; H, R. gapudi, new species.

Fig. 11. Area and distribution maps of Rhagovelia species. A, overview of the Palawan Region with major islands and towns, insert showing the location of the area within the Philippines as well as the northern part of Borneo belonging to Malaysia; B, allopatric distribution of the species of the R. sarawakensis group related with R. minutissima; C, allopatric distribution of the species of the R. sarawakensis group related with R. estrella; D, distribution of R. lansburyi; E, distribution of R. kawakamii hoberlandti; F, distribution of R. gapudi, new species.