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
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scientific name	Rhagovelia cubana Polhemus, 1997
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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.