Rhagovelia sooretama Moreira, Nessimian & Rúdio

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 sooretama Moreira, Nessimian & Rúdio

Distribution in Brazil: MT!, MG, ES, RJ, PR.

Biological aspects: Three specimens have been collected on the same second order stream. The substrate was composed of thin gravel in erosional areas and leaf litter on depositional areas, and the stream had narrow riparian vegetation in only one of the margins. There were signs of cattle on the ground and on the stream.

Comments: This recently described species was previously known from the Southeast and South Brazilian macrorregions, being herein recorded for the first time from the Central-West in an area of Cerrado -Amazon transition ( Fig. 17 ).

Material examined: PT 47, (2♂, 1♀), [nº 2281], 24.V.2008.

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FIGURE 17. Predicted distribution of Rhagovelia sooretama in Brazil based on literature and collections on eastern Mato Grosso.