Platyvelia brachialis (Stål), Stal

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 : 223

Platyvelia brachialis (Stål)

Distribution in Brazil: PE, MT!, GO, MG, MS, ES, RJ, SC.

Biological aspects: Three individuals have been collected on pool areas of 2nd, 4th and 5th order streams with submerged grass on margins.

Comments: This species is widely distributed in the Americas, from U.S.A. to Argentina , and in Brazil so far there are no records only from the North ( Fig. 14 ).

Material examined: PT 50, (1♀), [nº 2292], 25.V.2008. PT 31, (1♂), [nº 3732], 20.I.2008. PT 26, (1♀), [nº 3743], 16.I.2008.

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FIGURE 14. Predicted distribution of Platyvelia brachialis in Brazil based on literature and collections on eastern Mato Grosso.