Published October 14, 2024 | Version v1
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Mesovelia vittigera Horvath 1895

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States of America
  • 2. College of Literature, Science & the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America

Description

Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; individualCount: 5; sex: 4 ♂, 1 ♀; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5ED47349-A7AA-5E00-AA65-53427BF4139A; Taxon: scientificName: Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895; family: Mesoveliidae; genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: vittigera; scientificNameAuthorship: Horváth, 1895; Location: country: Republic of Korea; stateProvince: Gyeonggi-do; locality: Ilsan Lake Park (37.661108, 126.762026), Goyang-si; Identification: identifiedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; Event: eventDate: 21.v.2024

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; individualCount: 7; sex: 3 ♂, 4 ♀ (1 ♂ macropterous); lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6E830790-0AE6-50FA-B8C0-3C9496F584C0; Taxon: scientificName: Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895; family: Mesoveliidae; genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: vittigera; scientificNameAuthorship: Horváth, 1895; Location: country: Republic of Korea; stateProvince: Gyeonggi-do; locality: Wangsong Reservoir (37.3153654, 126.9472773), Uiwang-si; Identification: identifiedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; Event: eventDate: 23.v.2024

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; individualCount: 6; sex: 5 ♂, 1 ♀; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: DE21B38F-1B34-5C0E-A56E-F3E3E5F67FF8; Taxon: scientificName: Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895; family: Mesoveliidae; genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: vittigera; scientificNameAuthorship: Horváth, 1895; Location: country: Republic of Korea; stateProvince: Chungcheongnam-do; locality: Jangam-ri (36.010707, 126.666094), Janghang-eup, Seocheon-gun; Identification: identifiedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; Event: eventDate: 19.vi.2024

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Seokin Yang; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 ♀; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 65FA577A-09F1-5DEA-B075-DF98390875CC; Taxon: scientificName: Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895; family: Mesoveliidae; genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: vittigera; scientificNameAuthorship: Horváth, 1895; Location: country: Republic of Korea; stateProvince: Gyeongsangbuk-do; locality: Hahoe-ri (36.537252, 128.527654), Pungcheon-myeon, Andong-si; Identification: identifiedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; Event: eventDate: 27.vi.2024

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Seokin Yang; individualCount: 5; sex: 3 ♂, 2 ♀; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 615085FA-186F-5AC6-AA87-E23C4EAA64B7; Taxon: scientificName: Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895; family: Mesoveliidae; genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: vittigera; scientificNameAuthorship: Horváth, 1895; Location: country: Republic of Korea; stateProvince: Jeollanam-do; locality: Ganmun-ri (35.180378, 127.543011), Ganjeon-myeon, Gurye-gun; Identification: identifiedBy: Seokin Yang & Wonwoong Kim; Event: eventDate: 16.vi.2024

Distribution

Widespread in the Palaearctic Region (Andersen 1995). In East Asia: Korea (CN, GG, GB, GN, GW, JJ, JN, Seoul) (Kwon et al. 2001), China (north-western, south-eastern, south-western) (Andersen 1995, Jorigtoo and Qi 1996), Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima Island, Nansei Islands) (Hayashi and Miyamoto 2018, Nakajima et al. 2020), Taiwan (Andersen 1995), Russia (Far East: Primorsky Krai) (Kanyukova 1988).

Biology

In South Korea, M. vittigera inhabited a wide range of freshwater habitats including lakes, reservoirs, rice paddies and brackish ponds. All confirmed habitats were still waterbodies with abundant floating vegetation, some were highly stagnant, densely covered with algal blooms (Fig. 2 A).

Notes

This species was initially recognised from Korea by Tanaka (1937) as Mesovelia orientalis Kirkaldy, 1901, who subsequently provided distributional information from 淸凉里, 京城 (= currently Cheongnyangni, Seoul) (Tanaka 1939). Miyamoto and Lee (1963) and Miyamoto and Lee (1966) provided further occurrence records from Gyeongsang Province and Jeju island, respectively. Until the mid- 1980 s, this species was referred to as M. orientalis in various Korean literature, despite the early synonymisation with Mesovelia vittigera Horváth, 1895 by Horváth (1915). The Ministry of Education (1988) listed both M. orientalis and M. vittigera and provided a new Korean vernacular name for M. vittigera; however, the figure of M. vittigera (p. 410, fig. 14) actually depicts a nymph of a Mesovelia species, making the identification unstable. Yoon (1995) adopted the same information (p. 111, figs. 4-28 and 29) without modification. In contrast, Lee and Kwon (1991) and Kwon et al. (2001) listed only M. vittigera, recognising M. orientalis as invalid. This information was followed by later Korean checklists (Lee et al. 2013, Korean Society of Applied Entomology and The Entomological Society of Korea 2021, National Institute of Biological Resources 2023).

Historical distributional records of Mesoveliidae in most Korean literature (except for M. egorovi in Lee et al. (1994)) only refer to M. vittigera (see Kwon et al. (2001) for bibliographic reference). However, our survey has shown that M. vittigera and M. thermalis share the same habitat in some affirmed cases and identification of known Mesovelia species in Korea requires microscopic observation of both sexes. Therefore, re-examination of previously reported sites of M. vittigera in Korea will be critical to clarify the distribution of Mesovelia species in South Korea.

Notes

Published as part of Yang, Seokin & Kim, Wonwoong, 2024, New data on the fauna of the water treaders (Hemiptera, Mesoveliidae) of Korea, pp. e 136390 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e136390, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e136390

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Biodiversity

Event date
2024-05-21 , 2024-05-23 , 2024-06-16 , 2024-06-19 , 2024-06-27
Verbatim event date
2024-05-21 , 2024-05-23 , 2024-06-16 , 2024-06-19 , 2024-06-27
Scientific name authorship
Horvath
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Mesoveliidae
Genus
Mesovelia
Species
vittigera
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Mesovelia vittigera Horvath, 1895 sec. Yang & Kim, 2024

References

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