Paravelia rotundanotata ( Hungerford, 1930 )

Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía, 2022, Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina), Zootaxa 5104 (4), pp. 451-505 : 464

Paravelia rotundanotata ( Hungerford, 1930)

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Velia rotundanotata Hungerford, 1930 : J. Kansas Ent. Soc., 23–24.

Paravelia rotundanotata: Polhemus, 1976 : J. Kansas Ent. Soc., 512.

Material examined. Itatí RS: 1 ♂, Corriente River , 28°44.18’S, 58°8.70’W, 30.iii.2014 .

General distribution. Brazil ( Rodrigues et al. 2014). La Plata ( Argentina?) ( Coscarón 2017). Argentina: Corrientes (this work).

Habitat. Very little information exists regarding the biology of P. rotundanotata . Hungerford (1930) described this species from “La Plata” and Brazil (Minas Gerais state) without any mention of habitat characteristics. This species has been recorded from a river ( Rodrigues et al. 2014).

At the INR, only one specimen of P. rotundanotata was collected in the Corriente River , in open water surface beside emergent vegetation, in shaded places ( Fig. 12 ) .

Remarks. The genus Paravelia contains 49 species, all of which are confined to the Neotropical region ( Polhemus et al. 2019; Polhemus 2021). So far, only four species of Paravelia had been recorded from Argentina ( Coscarón 2017). The collection of P. rotundanotata from INR represents the first reliable record from Argentina, as this species was described by Hungerford (1930) from “La Plata” (and Brazil) without any mention of the country, and the first record of the genus Paravelia from Corrientes Province. This record extends the known range of this species from central-west and southeast Brazil to northeastern Argentina. The following combination of characters distinguishes P. rotundanotata from P. anta Mazzucconi, 2000 , P. paxilla ( Drake, 1957) , and P. platensis ( Berg, 1879) from Argentina: head, thorax and abdominal laterotergites with small dark spinules; antennae dark, with segment IV noticeably lighter; and males with a distinct horn-like expansion basally on the proctiger.

Figures

FIGURES 18–22. Dorsal habitus of 18, Curicta granulosa; 19, Neogerris celeris; 20, Ovatametra obesa; 21, Paravelia rotundanotata; 22, Steinovelia vinnula. Scale: 18, 5.88 mm; 19, 2.33 mm; 20, 1.33 mm; 21, 1 mm; 22, 1.30 mm.

FIGURES 8–13. 8–11: Sampling sites from the Iberá Natural Reserve: 8, Carambola Stream; 9, Carambolita Stream; 10, Corriente River; 11, Pay Ubre Chico Stream. 12, Habitat of Paravelia rotundanotata at Corriente River (Itatí RS). 13, Habitat of Steinovelia vinnula at Caaby Aguilar in marshes (Yahaveré RS).