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Issue: Vol. 4585 No. 2: 12 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.4
Page range: 295–314
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Altavelia, a new genus of Neotropical Veliinae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae), with a key to species and descriptions of four new species from Colombia

Dept. of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817 USA
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “Luis Gonzalo Andrade”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, BY, Colombia
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “Luis Gonzalo Andrade”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, BY, Colombia
Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Assis, SP, Brazil Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
Heteroptera Andes distribution semiaquatic bugs South America taxonomy

Abstract

The new genus Altavelia Polhemus & Moreira (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae) includes seven species previously contained in the inveruglas group of Paravelia Breddin, 1898 and four new species from Colombia: A. altoandina Molano & Morales, A. antioquia Molano & Morales, A. montana Molano & Morales, and A. quindiana Molano & Morales. Additionally, A. amoena (Drake, 1957) is synonymized with A. flavomarginata (Hungerford, 1930). The genus is characterized by prominent setal tufts or sclerotized wing-like processes on the male proctiger; elongate body shape with long, slender legs; uniformly blackish forewings; antennal segment I longest; and the female abdomen with tergum VIII deflexed. Species in this genus occur at high elevations in the Andes Mountains with records from 1500 to 3600 m. A key is provided to all 11 species in the genus and new distributional records are presented for A. boliviana (Breddin, 1898), A. columbiensis (Hungerford, 1930), and A. flavomarginata.

 

 

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