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Issue: Vol. 3251 No. 1: 30 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3251.1.4
Page range: 57–63
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Rhagovelia from Colombia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) with revised keys to the Colombian species in the torquata and robusta groups

Universidad de Nariño, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Biología, Ciudad Universitaria Torobajo, Bloque 3, piso 4. San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
Hemiptera tropical South America riffle bugs small water striders key to species

Abstract

Two new species of the Rhagovelia in the torquata and robusta species groups, R. divisoensis sp. n. and R. victoria sp. n.,are described and compared with other allied species. Rhagovelia divisoensis sp. n. constitutes the first record of the torquata group from Colombia. A nomenclatural note is also presented correcting the orthography of R. narinensis.

References

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    Polhemus, D.A. (1997) Systematics of the Genus Rhagovelia Mayr (Heteroptera:Veliidae) in the Western Hemisphere (exclusive of the angustipes complex). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs, Lanham, Maryland: Entomological Society of America, 386 pp.