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Microvelia venustatis Drake & Harris 1933

Creators

  • 1. Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil. & Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & rafaelcanejo 17 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4296 - 8936
  • 2. Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. & aldemelo @ icb. ufmg. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7118 - 7210
  • 3. Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & higorddr @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9649 - 4142

Description

Microvelia venustatis Drake & Harris, 1933

(Figs. 6B, 8G–I)

Microvelia venustatis Drake & Harris, 1933a: 53 (original description).

Identification. Our specimens were identified based on the mesonotum of apterous forms partially covered by the pronotum; the body length usually less than 1.5 mm; the body color black; and antennomere IV fusiform and thicker than antennomeres I–III (Figs. 8G–I) (Rdio & Moreira 2011; Rodrigues & Moreira 2023).

Examined material. All specimens apterous. BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Norte: Parnamirim, Rio Pitimbu, Vale Encantado, 5°55’41.1”S 35°10’46.5”W; 06-X-2019; R. P. R. Canejo, leg. (2 ♂, 4 ♀ CEAAVF); same data, except 17-VII-2022 (1♀ CEAAVF); Tabatinga, “Lago ao lado do condomínio Mar de Tabatinga ”, 6°03’59.5”S 35°06’00.4”W; 20-IX-2019; R. P. R. Canejo, A. L. Melo, leg. (1 ♀ CEAAVF).

Notes

Published as part of Canejo, Rafael P. R., Melo, Alan Lane De & Rodrigues, Higor D. D., 2023, Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil, including a new synonymy, pp. 151-185 in Zootaxa 5357 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10017897

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0102A435FFE6663090B7B64FFB92E584

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10017918 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10017924 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.2.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10017897 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FD3BDC4DFFE9663F9020B271FF94E05B (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/053C3B6A-8D97-4DB2-AA2B-863B6DE6053F (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0102A435FFE6663090B7B64FFB92E584 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/214037042 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/273362/taxon/0102A435FFE6663090B7B64FFB92E584.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEAAVF , CEAAVF, R , R , R, CEAAVF
Event date
2019-09-20 , 2019-10-06
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Microvelia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Drake & Harris
Species
venustatis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2019-09-20/2022-07-17 , 2019-10-06
Taxonomic concept label
Microvelia venustatis Drake, 1933 sec. Canejo, Melo & Rodrigues, 2023

References

  • Drake, C. J. & Harris, H. M. (1933 a) New American Veliidae (Hemiptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 46, 45 - 54.
  • Moreira, F. F. F., Barbosa, J. F., Ribeiro, J. R. I. & Alecrim, V. P. (2011) Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil. Zootaxa, 2858 (1), 1 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2958.1.1
  • Rodrigues, J. M. S. & Moreira, F. F. F. (2023) New records of semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from the Caatinga biome, Brazil. Check List, 19 (3), 331 - 338. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 19.3.311