Published February 5, 2026 | Version v1
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Rhagovelia robusta Gould 1931

  • 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

Rhagovelia robusta Gould, 1931

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 433E47B7-2710-5904-A394-768B56266F8D; Taxon: genus: Rhagovelia; specificEpithet: robusta; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Gould, 1931; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, brejo na trilha; decimalLatitude: - 23.8883; decimalLongitude: - 52.8086; Identification: identificationID: Rhagovelia robusta; 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: 7; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 431985F7-0774-57F2-8946-D020E3A093DF; Taxon: genus: Rhagovelia; specificEpithet: robusta; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Gould, 1931; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas; decimalLatitude: - 23.8797; decimalLongitude: - 52.8194; Identification: identificationID: Rhagovelia robusta; 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: 7; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3D015527-E554-5019-B86E-41B37C873F26; Taxon: genus: Rhagovelia; specificEpithet: robusta; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Gould, 1931; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas; decimalLatitude: - 23.8797; decimalLongitude: - 52.8194; Identification: identificationID: Rhagovelia robusta; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Notes

First records from Paraná (Fig. 10 F, Fig. 11 C). Previously reported from Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (Polhemus 1997, Rodrigues et al. 2021).

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

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEIOC
Scientific name authorship
Gould
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Rhagovelia
Species
robusta
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Rhagovelia robusta Gould, 1931 sec. Floriano, Paiva, Cordeiro, Franco, Rodrigues & Moreira, 2026

References

  • Polhemus D. A. 1997 Systematics of the genus Rhagovelia Mayr (Heteroptera: Veliidae) in the Western Hemisphere (exclusive of the angustipes complex) Entomological Society of America Lanham 385
  • Rodrigues Juliana Mourão Santos, Magalhães Oséias Martins, Joaquim Evaldo Alves, Ribeiro José Ricardo Inacio, Moreira Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo 2021 Semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil CheckList 17 5 1323 1343 10.15560/17.5.1323