Microvelia paludicola Champion, 1898

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 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197138
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6207743
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scientific name	Microvelia paludicola Champion, 1898
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Geographical distribution: southern United States in the Nearctic region to Puerto Rico in the Caribbean subregion.

Material from Cuba: Guantánamo, Río Miel, Baracoa, 05.IV.1969, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 1 ɗ (SDH, SIB). Arroyo de La Poa, Baracoa, 23.II.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 1 ɗ (SDH, SIB). Holguín, Pinares de Mayarí, arroyo, 02.III.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 1 ɗ (SDH, SIB). Río Mogote, near Matías, 21.III.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 6 ɗ, 8 Ψ (SDH, SIB). Arroyo Jarahueca, 25.III.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 1 ɗ, 1 Ψ (SDH, SIB). Pinar del Río, Quemado de Pineda, arroyo, 14.IV.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 2 ɗ, 4 Ψ (SDH, SIB) ( Nieser 1977). Holguín, Río Cacoyugüín, Puente Blanco, 5.XI.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg, 60 specimens ( NHMC); 20.VI.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg., 42 specimens ( NHMC) ( Hernández and Bauta 2003).

Habitat: common species throughout the year in Cuba, found in both stagnant water and slowly flowing streams near sea-level.