Microvelia mimula White, 1879

Moreno-R., Claudia, Molina-J., Wendy, Barbosa, Julianna Freires & Moreira, Felipe, 2018, Aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from Toluviejo Municipality, Sucre Department, Caribbean region of Colombia, Check List 14 (6), pp. 985-1002 : 994

Microvelia mimula White, 1879

New records. Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Bobo Stream, station 1 (09°33′47″ N, 075°24′51″ W), Wendy Molina- J., 20.V.2017 (WMJ 088). Colombia: Sucre: Toluviejo: Pechilín Stream, station 4 (09°25′50″ N, 075°25′36″ W), Claudia Moreno-R., 29.IV.2017 (CMR 128).

Identification. Our material of this species was identified based on the males, because females can be confused with other species, especially when in the macropterous form. All males of M. mimula have the terminalia distinctly modified, with the dorsum of abdominal segment VIII expanded laterally, the venter of this segment widely excavated on the posterior margin, and the proctiger with large lateral projections ( Drake and Carvalho 1954).

Distribution in the Colombian Caribbean region. Sucre (this work).