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Microvelia braziliensis McKinstry 1937

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal, Seropédica, Brazil

Description

Microvelia braziliensis McKinstry, 1937

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 3; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 516E493F-A831-5AD7-941D-BEB539A0E3C1; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Marialva; locality: Ribeirão Sarandi, Cachoeira Marialva; decimalLatitude: - 23.4423; decimalLongitude: - 51.7695; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 5; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 68975BEB-0405-5295-8A85-8B6C4ED3910A; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Marialva; locality: Ribeirão Sarandi, Cachoeira Marialva; decimalLatitude: - 23.4423; decimalLongitude: - 51.7695; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 3; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 1FF508B8-4AB1-595F-89C7-D8147471E74A; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, brejo na trilha; decimalLatitude: - 23.8883; decimalLongitude: - 52.8086; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7D9A11CC-8A84-5927-982B-CF686E81BBA5; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, brejo na trilha; decimalLatitude: - 23.8883; decimalLongitude: - 52.8086; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: D4DBCA8C-26AA-5619-AF50-89A9321BDBC7; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Rio Saquarema; decimalLatitude: - 23.8725; decimalLongitude: - 52.7864; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E4E2650B-790A-5DB0-8BE4-5F661C41175C; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Rio Saquarema; decimalLatitude: - 23.8725; decimalLongitude: - 52.7864; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 4; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 012F5413-393E-52F4-8C0E-3DD7866D7550; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Cianorte; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Córrego Adelaide; decimalLatitude: - 23.8472; decimalLongitude: - 52.7389; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 3; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C9E1EEF3-516F-5D35-871E-0E65EFD1CA47; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: braziliensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: McKinstry, 1937; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Cianorte; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Córrego Adelaide; decimalLatitude: - 23.8472; decimalLongitude: - 52.7389; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia braziliensis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.

Notes

First records from Paraná (Fig. 3 A, Fig. 4 B). Previously reported from Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul by Drake and Plaumann (1955) and Rodrigues et al. (2012).

Notes

Published as part of Floriano, Carla FB, Paiva, Nathália de Oliveira, Cordeiro, Isabelle da Rocha Silva, Franco, Cleilton Lima, Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão dos Santos & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2026, New records of semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from the South Region of Brazil, pp. e 163787 in Biodiversity Data Journal 14 on page e163787, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e163787

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C94EEE102BF058119F2E4810B63955AB

Cites
Figure: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e163787.figure11 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1361023 (URL)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1111619 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e163787 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6CDC2579130959DB9C4F55EF60829F9F (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/C94EEE102BF058119F2E4810B63955AB (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEIOC
Scientific name authorship
McKinstry
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Microvelia
Species
braziliensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Microvelia braziliensis McKinstry, 1937 sec. Floriano, Paiva, Cordeiro, Franco, Rodrigues & Moreira, 2026

References

  • Drake C. J., Plaumann F. 1955 Some Microvelia from southern Brazil (Hemiptera: Veliidae) Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 54 22 24
  • Rodrigues Higor Daniel Duarte, Melo Alan Lane, Ferreira-Keppler Ruth Leila 2012 New records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Brazil Check List 8 5 908 913 10.15560/8.5.908