Microvelia ubatuba Moreira & Barbosa

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 : 221

Microvelia ubatuba Moreira & Barbosa

Distribution in Brazil: AM, MT!, SP.

Biological aspects: A couple was collected on a shaded area of a well-preserved 1st order stream.

Comments: This species was recently described from southeastern Brazil, later assigned to the northern portion of the country, and is herein recorded for the first time from the Central-West ( Fig. 12 ). Like many other Neotropical Microvelia , M. ubatuba is very small and difficult to identify, which can explain the lack of records inside its wide distributional area. The poor recording also lead the distributional modeling to assign the area where it was collected out of its potential range.

Material examined: PT 17, (1♂, 1♀),), [nº 3811], 01.XI.2007.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Predicted distribution of Microvelia ubatuba in Brazil based on literature and collections on eastern Mato Grosso.