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Rhagovelia pexa Hoberlandt 1941

Description

Rhagovelia pexa Hoberlandt, 1941

Rhagovelia pexa Hoberlandt, 1941a: 68–69, Figs 1–2, 13 (original description).

The holotype and six paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Holotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (The specimen is card-mounted; right antenna, middle and hind leg, and pygophore dissected, mounted on four separate slides deposited in Slide Box 3).

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘Ambania / Madagascar / Mus Praha // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘ Madagascar / Env. de Rogez // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Allotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (The specimen is card-mounted; left metatibia and metatarsus missing. Right antenna and all legs on right side dissected, mounted on a separate microscopic slide deposited in Slide Box 3).

PARATYPES (2 ♀♀ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

Note. Collection also includes ten slides with various body parts from paratypes (Slide Box 3).

Current status. Valid species (see HOBERLANDT 1951c).

Notes

Published as part of Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 821-890 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on page 854, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740731

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hoberlandt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Rhagovelia
Species
pexa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhagovelia pexa Hoberlandt, 1941 sec. Kment & Kolínová, 2013

References

  • HOBERLANDT L. 1941 a: Madagaskarske plostice v prazskem muzeu. I. Veliidae. (Heteroptera madagascariensia in Museo Pragensi. I. Veliidae). Sbornik Entomologickeho Oddeleni pri Zoologickych Sbirkach Zemskeho Musea v Praze 19: 67 - 75 + 1 unpaginated plate (in Czech and Latin).
  • HOBERLANDT L. 1951 c: Madagascan species of Rhagovelia Mayr. Commentationes Biologicae 12 (5): 1 - 12.