Rhagovelia mira Drake & Harris, 1938

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197138

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6207753

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scientific name

Rhagovelia mira Drake & Harris, 1938
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Rhagovelia mira Drake & Harris, 1938 View in CoL

Geographical distribution: endemic to Cuba.

Material from Cuba: Santiago de Cuba, Sierra Maestra, 3000-4250 feet, 10-20.VII.1922, C. H. Ballon & S.C. Bruner leg., 5 ɗ ( USNM, JTPC). Pico Turquino, north side, 4500-6000 feet, 18-20.VI.1936, P. Darlington leg., 2 ɗ, 2 Ψ ( AMNH, JTPC) ( Polhemus 1997).

Comments. Without providing detailed information, Zayas (1986) recorded the species from the following localities in southeastern Cuba: Santiago de Cuba, Sierra Maestra, Río Indio, Ramón de Las Yaguas. Santa Elena, Gran Piedra. Limoncito. Afluente del Arroyo La Santana. Palma Mocha, Arroyo Paco. Palma Mocha, Arroyo la Emajagua. Cruce de los Baños. San Lorenzo. El Tartaro. La Anita.

Habitat: representatives of the species are found only in high altitude streams and rivers in southeastern Cuba.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

JTPC

Colorado Entomological Museum (formerly John T. Polhemus collection)

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

Genus

Rhagovelia

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