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Rhagovelia excellentis Drake & Harris 1927

Description

Rhagovelia excellentis Drake & Harris, 1927

Rhagovelia excellentis Drake & Harris, 1927: 134−135 (original description).

Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC:

PARATYPES (2 JJ apter.): ‘Dolores, Colo. / Aug. 15, 1925 / C. J. Drake // J [p] // PARATYPE [p] / Rhagovelia / excellentis / Drake + Harris [hw, red label]’.

Current status. Junior synonym of Rhagovelia distincta Champion, 1898 (see GOULD 1931, SMITH 1988 a, POLHEMUS 1997, PADILLA- GIL & MOREIRA 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 821-890 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on page 851, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740731

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Veliidae
Genus
Rhagovelia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Drake & Harris
Species
excellentis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhagovelia excellentis Drake, 1927 sec. Kment & Kolínová, 2013

References

  • DRAKE C. J. & HARRIS H. M. 1927: Notes on the genus Rhagovelia, with descriptions of six new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 40: 131 - 138.
  • GOULD G. E. 1931: The Rhagovelia of the Western Hemisphere, with notes on World distribution (Hemiptera, Veliidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 20: 5 - 62.
  • SMITH C. L. 1988 a: Family Veliidae Amyot and Serville, 1843. The Small Water Striders. Pp. 734 - 742. In: HENRY T. J. & FROESCHNER R. C. (eds.): Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill, Leiden, New York, Kobenhaven, Koln, xix + 958 pp.
  • POLHEMUS D. A. 1997: Systematics of the genus Rhagovelia Mayr (Heteroptera: Veliidae) in the Western Hemisphere (Exclusive of the angustipes complex). Entomological Society of America, Langham, 386 pp.