Microvelia cubana Drake, 1951

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.6207737
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scientific name	Microvelia cubana Drake, 1951
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Geographical distribution: southern Florida, United States, in the Nearctic region to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean subregion.

Material from Cuba: Habana, 24.II.1941, S. C. Brunner leg., 23 ɗ and Ψ ( USNM). Guantánamo, Baracoa, IX.1901, no collector, 5 specimens ( USNM) ( Drake 1951). La Habana, Cueva de Emilio, near Ashton, pools in semi dark cave, 19.IV.1969, Botosaneanu leg., 1ɗ (probably NN). Isla de la Juventud, Cayo Piedra, 20.IV.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 6 ɗ, 9 Ψ (SIB) ( Nieser 1977). Camagüey, Río Máximo, Criadero de cocodrilos (27 Km del nacimiento), 18.II.2002, O. Bello leg., 4 specimens ( NHMC); 20.VI.2002, O. Bello leg., 2 specimens ( NHMC); 12.III.2003, O. Bello leg., 16 specimens ( NHMC) ( Bello 2004). Santiago de Cuba, San Lorenzo, no date, Zayas leg., 3 specimens ( NHMC) ( Zayas 1986).

Habitat: stagnant water bodies, including cave pools, up to 750 m above the sea-level.