Mesovelia zeteki Harris & Drake

Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Bispo, Pitágoras Da Conceição, Morales, Irina & Molano-Rendón, Fredy, 2016, A new species of Mesovelia (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Mesoveliidae) from South America, with identification key and notes on Colombian species, Zootaxa 4175 (4), pp. 345-352 : 349-350

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.4.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:28F67AA1-CA4F-4D13-A24D-50F6107A60EB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6077967

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F13F9D00-FFB8-FFF6-D385-DA7997F95098

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Plazi

scientific name

Mesovelia zeteki Harris & Drake
status

 

Mesovelia zeteki Harris & Drake View in CoL

( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 , 3 View FIGURE 3 C, 4)

Mesovelia zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941: 246 View in CoL –277 (description); Spangler (1990): 91 (distribution, key); Moreira et al. (2008): 544 –547 (distribution, illustration, key, redescription).

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ ( USNM): ‘ Canal Zone \ Pan 2-10-39 \ C. J. Drake’ ‘ Mesovelia \ zeteki \ D & H\ Holotype’. Additional material examined: (2♂, 3♀ USNM): ‘ Panama, Canal Zone \ Rio Juan Grande at Km.2\ on Pipeline Road, 30 km.\ 5 January 1993 CL 2784\ J. Polhemus & A. Gillogly’.

Diagnosis. Male. Mesofemur ventrally without row of spinules; abdominal tergum VIII with posterior margin straight; abdominal pleuron VIII without anterodorsal tubercle ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C); abdominal sternum VI with posteromedian projection acute, with fringe of black spinules ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 B); paramere with margins diverging and apex bifid ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 C).

Measurements (mm). Male holotype / non-type: body length 2.38 / 2.54; head length 0.57 / 0.57; head width through eyes 0.53 / 0.55; head width through antenniferous tubercles 0.35 / 0.38; antennomere I 0.47 / 0.47; antennomere II 0.34 / 0.34; antennomere III lost / 0.94; antennomere IV: lost / 0.75; FORE LEG, femoral length 0.77 / 0.66; tibial length 0.68 / 0.64; MID LEG, femoral length 0.94 / 0. 87; tibial length 0.96 / 0.85; HIND LEG, femoral length 0.98 / 1.17; tibial length 0.94 / 1.42. Female (n=1): body length 2.95; head length 0.65; head width through eyes 0.60; head width through antenniferous tubercles 0.42; antennomere I 0.47; antennomere II 0.36; antennomere III 0.94; antennomere IV 0.91; FORE LEG, femoral length 0.68; tibial length 0.66; MID LEG, femoral length 0.94; tibial length 0.94; HIND LEG, femoral length 1.28; tibial length 1.57.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Mesoveliidae

Genus

Mesovelia

Loc

Mesovelia zeteki Harris & Drake

Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Bispo, Pitágoras Da Conceição, Morales, Irina & Molano-Rendón, Fredy 2016
2016
Loc

Mesovelia zeteki

Spangler 1990: 91
Harris 1941: 246
Moreira et al. (2008) : 544
1941
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