Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984

Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Moreira, Felipe F. F., Nieser, Nico, Chen, Ping Ping, Melo, Alan L., Dias-Silva, Karina & Giehl, Nubia F. S., 2014, The genus Paravelia Breddin, 1898 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) in Brazil, with descriptions of eight new species, Zootaxa 3784 (1), pp. 1-47 : 32

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Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984 View in CoL

( Figs 17 View FIGURE 17 C)

Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984a: 341 View in CoL . [Original description] Paravelia manausana: Polhemus & Polhemus 1991 View in CoL , 207. [Habitat; identification key; new records] Paravelia manausana: Moreira et al. 2011b View in CoL , 21. [Checklist]

Paravelia manausana: Heckman 2011 View in CoL , 236. [Identification key]

Diagnosis. Male. BL 4.15, PW 1.60. Female. BL 4.10, PW 1.30. Body dark brown to black, without black denticles. Anterior lobe of pronotum with a pair of whitish subrectangular pubescent areas. Forewing with a basal whitish macula, starting from humeral angle and passing posterior margin of pronotum; at apex another suboval white macula, almost reaching posterior margin of wing ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 C). Hind femur with a row of small teeth on inner surface. Male hind tibia clavate. Male proctiger with an elevation on posterior half. Paramere elongated, with subtruncate apex.

Discussion. The only examined specimen is partly destroyed, which impeded the drawing of its genitalia; however, this structure was drawn by Polhemus & Polhemus (1991: 206, Figure 3 View FIGURE 3 ). Paravelia manausana Polhemus & Polhemus, 1984 , together with P. itatiayana Drake, 1951 , P. gabrielae , and P. recens ( Drake & Harris, 1935) , are the Brazilian species recorded from water accumulated in bromeliads. It can be separated from those mainly by the body color, pattern of maculae of forewings ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 C), and shape of male paramere. Specimens of P. recens ( Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18 A) and P. manausana can be collected on the same bromeliad and confounded at first sight when examined in alcohol. However, when dried, specimens present different coloration, which makes it easier to separate the two species.

Material examined. Brazil, Amazonas: 1 macropterous male ( INPA), Manaus, Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve, Acará, campinarana, in bromeliad, 03.X.2003, (S.R.S. Torreias, J. Fernandes & J. Vidal).