Altavelia willei ( Drake & Harris, 1940 )

Polhemus, Dan A., Molano, Fredy, Morales, Irina, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, 2019, Altavelia, a new genus of Neotropical Veliinae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae), with a key to species and descriptions of four new species from Colombia, Zootaxa 4585 (2), pp. 295-314 : 311

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BF11D9BF-8C33-496F-AD6F-D5AC2A10020D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6490138

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C1D87B0-2845-E977-FF29-5AF9FBA84C5C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Altavelia willei ( Drake & Harris, 1940 )
status

 

Altavelia willei ( Drake & Harris, 1940) (new combination)

( Figs. 10 View FIGURE 10 , 11 View FIGURE 11 )

Lelia willei Drake & Harris, 1940: 31 .

Paravelia willei: J. Polhemus, 1976: 512 View in CoL .

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ apterous ( USNM): ‘ Peru, Santa Eulalia river \ March 29 1935 \ J.E. Wille collector’.

Comments. Distributional records for this species from Peru, to which it seems to be endemic, were provided by D. Polhemus (2014). The male abdominal terminalia of this species have not been previously illustrated, and figures are provided here ( Figs. 11 C, D View FIGURE 11 ) to aid in future recognition of this species.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

Genus

Altavelia

Loc

Altavelia willei ( Drake & Harris, 1940 )

Polhemus, Dan A., Molano, Fredy, Morales, Irina, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez 2019
2019
Loc

Paravelia willei: J. Polhemus, 1976 : 512

Polhemus, J. T. 1976: 512
1976
Loc

Lelia willei

Drake, C. J. & Harris, H. M. 1940: 31
1940
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