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Microvelia pulchella Westwood 1834

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 pulchella Westwood, 1834

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano & T. Malacarne; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 441BF355-4553-5A4B-B230-DFC1ACA870D3; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; 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: Microvelia pulchella; 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: B5E57FB5-552B-5C13-8B20-0BE0EF035A07; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; 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: Microvelia pulchella; 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: F. Plaumman; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 33D2AF34-B2A6-58B7-95EE-3D233407FC84; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Santa Catarina; municipality: Chapecó; locality: Linha facão; decimalLatitude: - 27.08; decimalLongitude: - 52.62; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: year: 1957; month: V; Record Level: institutionCode: MZUSP; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: F. Plaumman; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: AEE47435-F38E-55B0-91D1-4895DCB56811; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Rio Grande do Sul; municipality: Maquiné; locality: Lagoa Quadros; decimalLatitude: - 29.75; decimalLongitude: - 50.11; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: year: 1959; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: MZUSP; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: F. Plaumman; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7E81B6E2-77DC-535A-8BFF-517AC82F2C58; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Rio Grande do Sul; municipality: Maquiné; locality: Lagoa Quadros; decimalLatitude: - 29.75; decimalLongitude: - 50.11; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: year: 1959; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: MZUSP; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: F. Plaumman; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5D0A0687-9BDA-51EB-BB6C-87675D45CB34; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Rio Grande do Sul; municipality: Torres; locality: Lagoa Itapeva; decimalLatitude: - 29.38; decimalLongitude: - 49.80; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: year: 1959; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: MZUSP; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J. R. I. Ribeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: D89B64FE-9031-5687-A105-BC98CF26B4AE; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Rio Grande do Sul; municipality: Tapes; decimalLatitude: - 30.70; decimalLongitude: - 51.56; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: year: 2002; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 8; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 04D7808E-769F-519C-9006-14002CAAFB92; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Lagoa; decimalLatitude: - 23.8894; decimalLongitude: - 52.8144; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; 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: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: FBF8ECCF-A91C-5547-B6B5-4EDE76F722E8; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Lagoa; decimalLatitude: - 23.8894; decimalLongitude: - 52.8144; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; 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: 628933DF-263A-5B18-88DB-F5E2806D1D94; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, poça na estrada; decimalLatitude: - 23.8553; decimalLongitude: - 52.8114; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; 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: 3D83620F-169A-552B-A464-0842E27594A4; Taxon: genus: Microvelia; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Westwood, 1834; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, poça na estrada; decimalLatitude: - 23.8553; decimalLongitude: - 52.8114; Identification: identificationID: Microvelia pulchella; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, U. S. Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Anguilla, St. Martin, Saba, St. Kitts & Nevis, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Costa Rica, Panama, Aruba, St. Vicent & the Grenadines, Barbados, Curaçao, Klein Curaçao, Bonaire, Klein Bonaire, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina.

Notes

First records from Paraná (Fig. 5 B, Fig. 6 D). Previously reported from Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (Drake and Plaumann 1955, 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

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/762C64A910A75CEEA4E08A9A052E58B7

Cites
Figure: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e163787.figure2 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1111621 (URL)
Figure: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e163787.figure11 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1111623 (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/762C64A910A75CEEA4E08A9A052E58B7 (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEIOC , MZUSP
Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Microvelia
Species
pulchella
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Microvelia pulchella Westwood, 1834 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 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