Microvelia venustatis Drake & Harris, 1933

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5393 (1), pp. 1-86 : 28

Microvelia venustatis Drake & Harris, 1933

Fig. 17B, D

Diagnosis. Body length at most 1.6 mm; antennomeres III and IV thicker than I and II; apterous pronotum almost completely covering mesonotum; male terminalia not sinistrally rotated, small, strongly inserted into abdomen; male proctiger without lateral projections (Moreira 2012).

New records. BRAZIL — Espírito Santo • Sooretama, Reserva Biológica de Sooretama, Estrada Meio Stream; [−19.002, −40.146]; 14. VII.2008; FF Salles leg.; 1 male, 3 females, UFVB .— Rio de Janeiro • Casimiro de Abreu, Reserva Biológica União , stream tributary to weir; −22.4278, −42.0424; 11. V.2016; JF Barbosa, LL Dumas, JL Nessimian leg.; 1 male, 3 females, CEIOC 81563 .

Distribution in Brazil. AL, AM, BA, CE, ES, MA, MG, MT, PA, RJ, SC, SE, SP.

Figures

FIGURE 17. A, B. Collected specimens. Gerromorpha, Gerridae. A. Microvelia ubatuba, macropterous female from Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro (−22.5016, −42.2673). B. Microvelia venustatis, apterous male from Casimiro de Abreu, Rio de Janeiro (−22.4278, −42.0424). C, D. Distribution in southeastern Brazil and adjacent areas. C. Microvelia ubatuba. D. Microvelia venustatis. Stars indicate new records; circles indicate previous records; question mark indicates unspecified locality. Scale bars: 1 mm.