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Mesovelia amoena Uhler 1894

Description

Mesovelia amoena Uhler, 1894

Geographical distribution: southern Canada in the Nearctic region to Brazil and the Galápagos Islands in the Neotropical region; introduced into the Hawaiian Islands.

Material from Cuba: Pinar del Río, Laguna La Cochinata, 16.IV.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 2Ψ (SDH, SIB) (Nieser 1977).

Habitat: common, but cryptic species rarely seen on open waters; collected on floating logs, moss covered rocks, and rock crevices in springs and streams, or in lentic habitats with aquatic plants.

Notes

Published as part of Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 2562 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197138

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Additional details

Biodiversity

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. Riviaux, Moreira & López, 2010

References

  • Nieser, N. (1977) Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera from Cuba. Resultats des Expeditions Biospeleologiques Cubano-Romaines a Cuba, 2, 355 - 360.