Platyvelia brachialis Stål, 1860

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan, Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia, Morales, Irina, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 226-251 : 237

Platyvelia brachialis Stål, 1860

( Figs 27 , 33 )

New records. PANAMA • 3 apterous males; Colón, Gamboa, artificial pool ; 9.12086° N, - 79.70374° W; 9 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79944 .

Remarks. This species has the widest distribution in the genus, ranging from eastern United States to northern Argentina ( Floriano et al. 2017). There are a couple of previous reports from Panama Province in Panama ( Champion 1898, Allee & Torvik 1927), and the record above is the first from Colón Province.

Figures

FIGURES 25–27. Habitus, dorsal view. 25, Lipogomphus leucostictus (Champion, 1898). 26, Hydrometra caraiba Guérin- Méneville, 1857. 27, Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860). Scale bars: 1.0 mm (25, 27), 2.0 mm (26).

FIGURES 32–35. Distribution of new records from Panamá. 32, Mesovelia mulsanti White, 1879 in blue circles; M. zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941 in green triangle. 33, Lipogomphus leucostictus (Champion, 1898) in yellow circle; Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857 in red circle; Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860) in blue triangle. 34, Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) raspa (Hungerford, 1929) in pink circle. 35, Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894 in orange hexagon; R. perija Polhemus, 1997 in purple triangle; R. rosensis Padilla-Gil, 2011 in green circles.