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Issue: Vol. 4958 No. 1: 14 Apr. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.12
Page range: 226–251
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Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, 46 allée d’Italie, F-69364, Lyon, France.
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “Luis Gonzalo Andrade”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia.
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “Luis Gonzalo Andrade”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia.
Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, 46 allée d’Italie, F-69364, Lyon, France.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Hemiptera Aquatic insects Neotropical Region semiaquatic bugs taxonomy

Abstract

The fauna of semiaquatic bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Panama has been explored mainly between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, with few reports since then, whereas that from Colombia has been intensively studied in the last decade. Here, we describe Rhagovelia joceliae Rodrigues & Moreira, sp. nov. (Veliidae: Rhagoveliinae), from Panama. Additionally, new records from these countries are presented for Mesovelia mulsanti White, 1879, Mes. zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941 (Mesoveliidae: Mesoveliinae), Lipogomphus leucostictus (Champion, 1898) (Hebridae: Hebrinae), Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857 (Hydrometridae: Hydrometrinae), Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860), Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) raspa (Hungerford, 1929) (Veliidae: Veliinae), R. elegans Uhler, 1894, R. perija Polhemus, 1997, R. rosensis Padilla-Gil, 2011 (Veliidae: Rhagoveliinae), Euvelia advena Drake, 1957, Microvelia albonotata Champion, 1898, Mi. fantastika Padilla-Gil, 2019, Mi. mimula White, 1879 (Veliidae: Microveliinae), Metrobates laudatus Drake & Harris, 1937, Telmatometra ujhelyii Esaki, 1926 (Gerridae: Trepobatinae), Brachymetra albinervus (Amyot & Serville, 1843) (Gerridae: Charmatometrinae), Potamobates anchicaya Polhemus & Polhemus, 1995 (Gerridae: Cylindrostethinae), Limnogonus hyalinus (Fabricius, 1803), and Tachygerris opacus (Champion, 1898) (Gerridae: Gerrinae).

 

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