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Mesovelia amoena 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

Mesovelia amoena Uhler, 1894

(Figs 78, 82)

Geographical distribution: Argentina (Harris & Drake 1941), Belize (Spangler 1990), Bonaire (Cobben 1960), Brazil (Jaczewski 1928b), Canada (Chagnon & Fournier 1948), Colombia (Alvarez & Roldán-Pérez 1983), Costa Rica (Spangler 1990), Cuba (Nieser 1977), Curaçao (Cobben 1960), Dominican Republic (Spangler 1990), Galápagos Islands (Peck 2001), Grenada (Uhler 1894a), Hawaiian Islands (Gagné & Howarth 1975), Jamaica (Usinger 1968), Martinique (De Kort-Gommers & Nieser 1969), Mexico (Andersen & Polhemus 1980), Panama (Harris & Drake 1941), Puerto Rico (Harris & Drake 1941), Saint Eustatius (Cobben 1960), Saint Vincent & the Grenadines (Jaczewski 1930), Trinidad & Tobago (Hynes 1948), United States of America (Hungerford 1924).

Distribution in Brazil: AL*, AM (Pereira & Melo 2007; Cordeiro & Moreira 2015), BA (Cordeiro & Moreira 2015), CE (Moreira & Campos 2012), ES (Nieser & Melo 1997; Moreira & Campos 2012), MG (Nieser & Melo 1997; Goulart et al. 2002; Vianna & Melo 2003; Melo & Nieser 2004; Souza et al. 2006), MT (Fernandes & Wanzeler 2010; Dias-Silva et al. 2013), PA (Drake & Harris 1946; Moreira et al. 2008; Moreira & Campos 2012; Guterres et al. 2019; Cunha & Juen 2020), PR (Jaczewski 1928b), RJ (Moreira et al. 2008; Moreira et al. 2011b), RO (Moreira et al. 2008), SE*, SP (Moreira et al. 2008; Moreira & Campos 2012).

Material examined: BRAZIL • Alagoas • 3 females, 1 nymph; Jequiá da Praia, REMLJ; -10.004130, - 36.025590; 30 Apr. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 79879. • 3 females; Murici, EEM; -9.253980, -35.801040; 28 Apr. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 81604. • 6 females; same data, except: -9.220460, -35.870290; 29 Apr. 2018; CEIOC 79873, 81606. • 2 females; Murici, EEM, riacho em área de pasto; -9.229250, -35.871222; alt. 427 m; 22 May 2019; J.M.S. Rodrigues, W. Sousa & F.F.F. Moreira col.; CEIOC 79765. • 1 female; Taquarana, Coité do Noá, queda d’água; -9.672300, -36.498710; 06 Jul.2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 79880. • 2 females; Quebrangulo, RBPT, brejo; -9.260810, -36.415670; 04 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 79874. • 3 females, 4 nymphs; same data, except: -9.262060, -36.426390; CEIOC 79876. • 9 females; same data, except: -9.260420, -36.416020; CEIOC 79872. • 2 female, 3 nymphs; same data, except: Rio Cafuringa; -9.259130, -36.417430; CEIOC 79871, 79878. • 8 females; Quebrangulo, RBPT; -9.234030, -36.448860; 05 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 79875. • 5 females, 1 nymph; same data, except: Rio Cafuringa, parte alta; -9.245200, -36.421710; CEIOC 79877. • 1 female; União dos Palmares, Santo Antônio da Lavagem, Rio Mundaú; -9.1341915, -36.0809212; 21 May 2019; J.M.S. Rodrigues, H. Rodrigues, W. Sousa & F.F.F. Moreira col.; CEIOC 79763. • 4 females; Viçosa, Fazenda Baixa Funda, riacho; -9.3242712, -36.2829933; 21 May 2019; J.M.S. Rodrigues, H. Rodrigues, W. Sousa & F.F.F. Moreira col.; CEIOC 79764. • Sergipe • 1 female; Areia Branca, PNSI, Riacho Negro; -10.747540, -37.340150; 08 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 79869. • 2 females; same data, except: Riacho Vermelho; -10.738680, -37.335370; CEIOC 79770. • 1 female, 2 nymphs; Estância, Rio Jacaré; -10.985110, -37.286830; 04 May 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 81603. • 4 females; Japoatã, Estrada SE-335; -10.367910, -36.807400; 03 May 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 79868. • 1 female; Lagarto, Estrada SE-170, açude; 09 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 81605. • 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 79867.

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 128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4693243

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1804A5517D2FFF853A8FFDC8FC5320C6

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4693307 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4693311 (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/1804A5517D2FFF853A8FFDC8FC5320C6 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/181600749 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/7177/taxon/1804A5517D2FFF853A8FFDC8FC5320C6.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEIOC , PNSI , RBPT , REMLJ
Material sample ID
CEIOC 79763 , CEIOC 79764 , CEIOC 79765 , CEIOC 79770 , CEIOC 79867 , CEIOC 79868 , CEIOC 79869 , CEIOC 79871, 79878 , CEIOC 79872 , CEIOC 79873, 81606 , CEIOC 79874 , CEIOC 79875 , CEIOC 79876 , CEIOC 79877 , CEIOC 79879 , CEIOC 79880 , CEIOC 81603 , CEIOC 81604 , CEIOC 81605
Event date
2018-04-28 , 2018-04-29 , 2018-04-30 , 2018-05-03 , 2018-05-04 , 2018-07-04 , 2018-07-05 , 2018-07-06 , 2018-07-08 , 2018-07-09 , 2019-05-21 , 2019-05-22
Verbatim event date
2018-04-28 , 2018-04-29 , 2018-04-30 , 2018-05-03 , 2018-05-04 , 2018-07-04 , 2018-07-05 , 2018-07-06 , 2018-07-08 , 2018-07-09 , 2019-05-21 , 2019-05-22
Scientific name authorship
Uhler
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Mesoveliidae
Genus
Mesovelia
Species
amoena
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mesovelia amoena Uhler, 1894 sec. Rodrigues, Nery, Rodrigues & Moreira, 2021

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