Published February 5, 2026 | Version v1
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Platyvelia brachialis

  • 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

Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano & T. Malacarne; individualCount: 3; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C55A1009-9FBF-5BCB-9CE4-63A54464B522; Taxon: genus: Platyvelia; specificEpithet: brachialis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Stål, 1860); Location: stateProvince: Santa Catarina; municipality: Blumenau; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Itajaí, Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes do Garcia, Lagoa Negra; decimalLatitude: - 27.0532; decimalLongitude: - 49.0878; Identification: identificationID: Platyvelia brachialis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2017; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano & T. Malacarne; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3ABAD684-778F-5209-ADB0-3E5BAEC99122; Taxon: genus: Platyvelia; specificEpithet: brachialis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Stål, 1860); Location: stateProvince: Santa Catarina; municipality: Blumenau; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Itajaí, Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes do Garcia, Lagoa Negra; decimalLatitude: - 27.0532; decimalLongitude: - 49.0878; Identification: identificationID: Platyvelia brachialis; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2017; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

United States, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, Peru and Argentina.

Notes

Previously reported from Santa Catarina (Polhemus and Polhemus 1993, 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
Stal
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Platyvelia
Species
brachialis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Platyvelia brachialis (Stal, 1860) sec. Floriano, Paiva, Cordeiro, Franco, Rodrigues & Moreira, 2026

References

  • Polhemus J. T., Polhemus D. A. 1993 Two new genera for New World Veliinae (Heteroptera: Veliidae) Journal of the New York Entomological Society 101 3 391 398
  • Rodrigues H. D. D., Floriano C. F. B., Zettel H., Moreira F. F. F. 2021 Revision of the American genus Platyvelia Polhemus & Polhemus, 1993 (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae) Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 65 1 e 20200120 10.1590/1806-9665-rbent-2020-0120