Rhagovelia guachiconoense Padilla-Gil, 2019

Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra, Morales, Irina & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Revision of the Rhagovelia angustipes complex (Insecta: Hemiptera: Veliidae from Colombia, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 167-225 : 199

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.11
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4691765
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scientific name	Rhagovelia guachiconoense Padilla-Gil, 2019
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( Figs. 19V View FIGURE 19 , 20V View FIGURE 20 , 23A View FIGURE 23 )

Rhagovelia guachiconoense Padilla-Gil, 2019b: 65 .

Diagnosis (based on Padilla-Gil 2019b; no specimens examined). Body length 3.64 in the macropterous male. Antennomere II shorter than III. Tarsal formula 3-3-3. Fore and hind coxae and trochanters yellow. Male fore tibia curved; apex flattened and widened. Male hind trochanter without spines. Male hind femur thinner middle femur, without spines. Ratio of male hind femur/tibia length ~0.64/1.00. Male hind tibia without spines or apical spur. Dorsum of male abdominal segments V–VIII shiny black centrally. Median carina on male abdominal sterna VII–VIII. Male abdominal segment VIII subcylindrical. Paramere and proctiger as in Figs. 19V View FIGURE 19 , 20V View FIGURE 20 .

Distribution. Colombia: Cauca ( Padilla-Gil 2019b, Padilla-Gil 2020) ( Fig. 23A View FIGURE 23 ).

Comments. This species was recently described based on a single macropterous male deposited in the Universidad de Nariño (San Juan de Pasto, Colombia), to which we did not have access. It might eventualy prove to be a synonym of R. longipes , pending examination of the holotype .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Veliidae
Genus	Rhagovelia