Rhagovelia cubana Polhemus, 1997

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.6207751

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Rhagovelia cubana Polhemus, 1997
status

 

Rhagovelia cubana Polhemus, 1997 View in CoL

Geographical distribution: endemic to Cuba.

Material from Cuba: La Habana, no date, F. Z. Cervera leg., 1 ɗ, 2 Ψ. (KU). Matanzas, W. of Matanzas, Yumuri Valley, arroyo in Mena, 16.V.1932, P. J. Bermudez leg., 10 ɗ, 8 Ψ. (KU). Villa Clara, Trinidad Mountains, San Blas, S.C. Bruner & A. Otero leg., 05.V.1932, 1 ɗ ( USNM); 1-9.III.1933, MacGillavry leg., 3 ɗ, 4 Ψ ( JTPC, USNM). Trinidad Mountains, Mina Carlotta , 11.VII.1939, C. T. Parsons leg., 5 Ψ ( JTPC). San Juan de Yeras, Arroyo los Ganzos, 22.I.1932, P. J. Bermudez leg., 10 ɗ, 10 Ψ (KU, JTPC) ( Polhemus 1997).

Habitat: found on mid-altitude localities; probably ecologically segregated from R. collaris , for the two species have not been collected at the same locality up to the present.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

JTPC

Colorado Entomological Museum (formerly John T. Polhemus collection)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

Genus

Rhagovelia

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