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

Rhagovelia trailii (Buchanan-White, 1879)

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Neovelia trailii Buchanan-White, 1879: 487 .

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

Rhagovelia traili ; Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno (1908: 206), Polhemus & Polhemus (1985: 168), Polhemus (1997: 174), Pereira & Melo (2007: 645), Moreira et al. (2011: 26) , Padilla-Gil & Moreira (2013: 415), Moreira & Barbosa (2014: 599), Cordeiro & Moreira (2015: 21) , 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 ). 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) .

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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).