Microvelia argentata Nieser & Alkins-Koo

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 : 217

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3736.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:12248658-6C84-45CC-BA1C-311822CBA328
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6165610
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F287D9-FFF1-4C67-FF24-F94FFBD05FF9
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Microvelia argentata Nieser & Alkins-Koo
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Microvelia argentata Nieser & Alkins-Koo View in CoL

Distribution in Brazil: MT!

Biological aspects: A female of this species has been collected on a 2nd order portion of a stream with clear water and well-preserved riparian vegetation. The substrate of the stream is composed by sand on riffles and leaf litter on pools.

Comments: This species had been so far recorded from the type-locality in Trinidad & Tobago and northern Argentina , and is herein recorded for the first time from Brazil ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 ).

Material examined: PT 18, (1♀), [nº 3813], 11.IX.2007, K. Dias-Silva leg.