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Rhagovelia elegans Uhler 1894

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & leticianerya @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4499 - 8442
  • 3. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
  • 4. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & ppmeiameiameia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6692 - 0323

Description

Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894

(Figs 92, 97)

Geographical distribution: Brazil (Gould 1931), Colombia (Gould 1931), Costa Rica (Polhemus 1997), Dominica (Bacon 1956), Ecuador (Polhemus 1997), Grenada (Uhler 1894a), Hispaniola Island (Polhemus 1997), Martinique (De Kort-Gommers & Nieser 1969), Panama (Champion 1898), Saint Kitts & Nevis (Bacon 1956), Saint Lucia (Polhemus 1997), Saint Vincent & the Grenadines (Uhler 1893), Trinidad & Tobago (Gould 1931), Venezuela (Hungerford 1944).

Distribution in Brazil: AL*, AM (Bacon 1956; Polhemus 1997; Cordeiro & Moreira 2015), AP (Polhemus 1997), ES (Moreira et al. 2010), PA (Bacon 1956; Polhemus 1997; Moreira & Campos 2012; Cunha et al. 2015; Cunha & Juen 2017; Cunha & Juen 2020), MT (Fernandes & Wanzeler 2010; Dias-Silva et al. 2013; Giehl et al. 2018), RJ (Drake 1948; Moreira et al. 2012), SE (Moreira & Campos 2012).

Material examined: BRAZIL • Alagoas • 11 males, 15 females; Murici, EEM; -9.220460, -35.870290; 28 Apr. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 79687. • 1 male, 12 females; Roteiro, Balneário; -9.842778, -35.981111; alt. 13m; 18 Sep. 2017; L-0006; H. Rodrigues col.; MZUSP. • Sergipe • 2 males, 1 female; São Cristóvão, Estrada Rita Cacete; -10.985110, -37.286830; 04 May 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 79688.

Notes: Moreira & Campos (2012) published the first record of R. elegans from Sergipe, in Areia Branca municipality. This work expands the records from the state by one municipality: São Cristóvão.

Notes

Published as part of Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Nery, Leticia, Rodrigues, Higor D. D. & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Alagoas and Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, pp. 103-159 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4693243

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1804A5517D12FFB83A8FFB7CFB1A208E

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4693330 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4693332 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.9 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4693243 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E43DDD297D36FF9C3A18FF8EFFDE271B (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/16498A96-010A-4940-A07B-B84E372FB9D7 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/1804A5517D12FFB83A8FFB7CFB1A208E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/181600805 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/7177/taxon/1804A5517D12FFB83A8FFB7CFB1A208E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEIOC , MZUSP
Material sample ID
CEIOC 79687 , CEIOC 79688
Event date
2017-09-18 , 2018-04-28 , 2018-05-04
Verbatim event date
2017-09-18 , 2018-04-28 , 2018-05-04
Scientific name authorship
Uhler
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Rhagovelia
Species
elegans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894 sec. Rodrigues, Nery, Rodrigues & Moreira, 2021

References

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  • Bacon, J. A. (1956) A study of the genus Rhagovelia (Hemiptera, Veliidae) of the Western Hemisphere. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 38, 695 - 913.
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