Microvelia hinei Drake

Dias-Silva, Karina, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Giehl, Nubia França Da Silva, Nóbrega, Caroline Correa & Cabette, Helena Soares Ramos, 2013, Gerromorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of eastern Mato Grosso State, Brazil: checklist, new records, and species distribution modeling, Zootaxa 3736 (3), pp. 201-235 : 218-219

Microvelia hinei Drake

Distribution in Brazil: AM, MT!, MG, SP.

Biological aspects: Representatives of this species have been collected on a 1st order environment upstream of a waterfall on a preserved stream with direct incidence of light. The marginal vegetation is composed by native grass and few bushes, typical of the Cerrado.

Comments: This species is distributed from Canada to Argentina , but very few collections have been made on tropical areas. In Brazil, it was previously known from the North and Southeast, being herein recorded for the first time from the Central-West ( Fig. 10 ).

Material examined: PT 12, (2♂, 2♀), [nº 2459], 24.IX.2010.

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FIGURE 10. Predicted distribution of Microvelia hinei in Brazil based on literature and collections on eastern Mato Grosso.