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Platyvelia brachialis

  • 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

Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860)

(Figs 100, 104)

Geographical distribution: Argentina (Torres et al. 2008), Belize (Floriano et al. 2017a), Brazil (Stål 1860), Colombia (Roback & Nieser 1974), Costa Rica (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993), Cuba (Uhler 1894a), Dominican Republic (Drake & Maldonado-Capriles 1956), El Salvador (Floriano et al. 2017a), Grenada (Uhler 1894a), Guatemala (Champion 1898), Haiti (Perez-Gelabert & Floriano 2016), Jamaica (Lanigan & Hyslop 2011), Mexico (Uhler 1894b), Nicaragua (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993), Panama (Champion 1898), Peru (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993), Suriname (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993), Trinidad & Tobago (Hynes 1948), United States of America (Snow 1905), Venezuela (Floriano et al. 2017a).

Distribution in Brazil: AL*, ES (Nieser & Melo 1997; Moreira et al. 2010; Crumière et al. 2016), GO (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993), MG (Nieser & Melo 1997; Melo & Nieser 2004; Souza et al. 2006), MS (Floriano et al. 2013), MT (Dias-Silva et al. 2013; Dias-Silva et al. 2020), PE (Rodrigues et al. 2012), PI (Cordeiro & Moreira 2015), RJ (Stål 1860; Ribeiro et al. 2010), SC (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993), SE*.

Material examined: BRAZIL • Alagoas • 1 female, 4 nymphs; Campo Grande, rio; -9.955930, -36.837280; 07 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 81257. • 1 male; Igaci, Rodovia BR-316, Rio Lunga; -9.531060, -36.533150; 06 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 79728. • 1 male; Maragogi, APACC; -8.930730, -35.210490; 29 Apr. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 79727. • 1 female; Murici, EEM; -9.220460, -35.870290; 28 Apr. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 79726. • 1 male, 3 females, 1 nymph; Quebrangulo, RBPT, riacho em um pasto; -9.260420, -36.416020; 04 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 79730. • 3 males, 1 female; same data, except: Rio Cafuringa; -9.259130, -36.417430; CEIOC 79731. • 1 male, 1 female, 2 nymphs; same data, except: Sítio Juliana, rio; -9.234030, -36.448860; 05 Jul. 2018; CEIOC 79733. • 1 female; Taquarana, Coité do Noá, queda d´água; -9.67230, -36.49871; 06 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 81256. • 1 male; Viçosa, Cachoeira do Anel; -9.3174619, -36.2943674; alt. 333 m; 21 May 2019; J.M.S. Rodrigues, H. Rodrigues, W. Sousa & F.F.F. Moreira col.; CEIOC 79781. • 1 male, 1 female; same data, except: Fazenda Baixa Funda, riacho; -9.3242712, -36.2829933; CEIOC 79784. • 1 male, 1 female; Viçosa, Fazenda Baixa Funda; -9.323889, -36.282500; alt. 284 m; 21 Mar. 2019; H. Rodrigues col.; MZUSP. • 1 male; Viçosa, Fazenda Baixa Funda; -9.324022, -36.282647; alt. 284 m; 14 Sep. 2017; L-0001; H. Rodrigues & K. Paresque col.; MZUSP. • Sergipe • 1 male, 4 females, 2 nymphs; Japoatã, Estrada SE- 335; -10.367910, -36.807400; 03 May 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 79732. • 2 females; 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 79729.

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 pages 143-144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4693243

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