Microvelia Ghahari, Moulet, Ostovan & Linnavuori, 2013, s.str.
Description
Subgenus Microvelia s.str. Westwood, 1834
Microvelia (Microvelia) pygmaea (Dufour, 1833)
Velia pygmaea Dufour, 1833: 115 (as new species); Microvelia nilicola A. Costa, 1875: 17.
Distribution in Iran. Fars (Ostovan & Arefnia 2011), Mazandaran (Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000). General distribution. Euro-Mediterranean, the Maghreb, Near East (Andersen 1995, Fent et al. 2011). Comments. Only two nymphs are mentioned and tentatively reported for this species by Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000); a species not cited from Iran by Aukema & Rieger (1995).
Microvelia (Microvelia) reticulata (Burmeister, 1835)
Hydroessa reticulata Burmeister, 1835: 213 (as new species); Hydroessa schneideri Scholtz, 1847: 109.
Distribution in Iran. Kordestan (Sakenin et al. 2010; Samin et al. 2011), Markazi (Vafaei 2005). General distribution. Euro-Siberian; scarce in Central Asia; known in Japan (Andersen 1995; Fent et al. 2011).
Comments. Carayon (1971) noticed that M. reticulata feeds upon ostracods and recalled former observations that it eats small flies too.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.4.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/217065 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/5574051C59757123FFBE3C21A950FFA3 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/5A7D0FB4-A976-4BF9-A3F1-65A09D4D6762 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/A94D7D64597F7129FF293CB6A8E7FCD7 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Veliidae
- Genus
- Microvelia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microvelia Ghahari, Moulet, Ostovan & Linnavuori, 2013