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Altavelia willei
Description
Altavelia willei (Drake & Harris, 1940) (new combination)
(Figs. 10, 11)
Lelia willei Drake & Harris, 1940: 31.
Paravelia willei: J. Polhemus, 1976: 512.
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ apterous (USNM): ‘ Peru, Santa Eulalia river \ March 29 1935 \ J.E. Wille collector’.
Comments. Distributional records for this species from Peru, to which it seems to be endemic, were provided by D. Polhemus (2014). The male abdominal terminalia of this species have not been previously illustrated, and figures are provided here (Figs. 11 C, D) to aid in future recognition of this species.
Notes
Published as part of Polhemus, Dan A., Molano, Fredy, Morales, Irina, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, 2019, Altavelia, a new genus of Neotropical Veliinae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae), with a key to species and descriptions of four new species from Colombia, pp. 295-314 in Zootaxa 4585 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2637340
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Event date
- 1935-03-29
- Family
- Veliidae
- Genus
- Altavelia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Drake & Harris
- Species
- willei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1935-03-29
- Taxonomic concept label
- Altavelia willei (Drake, 1940) sec. Polhemus, Molano, Morales, Moreira & Floriano, 2019
References
- Drake, C. J. & Harris, H. M. (1940) A new Lelia from Peru (Hemiptera, Veliidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 16 (1), 31.
- Polhemus, J. T. (1976) A reconsideration of the status of the genus Paravelia Breddin, with other notes and a check list of species (Veliidae: Heteroptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 49 (4), 509 - 513.
- Polhemus, D. A. (2014) Two new Peruvian species of Paravelia (Heteropera: Veliidae) from water-filled bamboo internodes, and distributional notes for other Paravelia species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 157, 151 - 162. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 22119434 - 00002043