Rhagovelia tenuipes Champion

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 : 227

Rhagovelia tenuipes Champion

Distribution in Brazil: RR, PA, AM, MT!, MG, MS, ES, SP, RJ.

Biological aspects: A very common species on the studied area, with 82 collected specimens from flowing water-bodies ranging from springs to 4th order streams with variable degree of impact on the margins.

Comments: This species ranges from Mexico to Peru, and in Brazil has not yet been recorded from the Northeast and South, being found on the country on Amazon, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest biomes ( Fig. 18 ).

Material examined: PT 21, (4♂, 3♀), [nº 573]; (4♂, 8♀), [nº 586], 04.VI.2003; (7♂ e 2♀), [nº 620]; (3♂), [nº 649]; (1♂, 2♀), [nº 683], 04.IV.2004. PT 20, (3♂, 1♀), [nº 584], 04.VI.2003. PT 22, (1♂), [nº 635], 04.IV.2004. PT 47, (7♂), [nº 2170], 23.IX.2007. PT 24, (2♀), [nº 2464], 19.IX.2007. PT 16, (1♀), [nº 2877], 24.I.2008. PT 28, (22♂, 2♀), [nº 3107]; (7♂, 2♀), [nº 4063], 06.VIII.2007.

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FIGURE 18. Predicted distribution of Rhagovelia tenuipes in Brazil based on literature and collections on eastern Mato Grosso.