A new species of Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Pará State, with an updated key to Brazilian species of the robusta group
Author
Magalhães, Oséias Martins
Author
Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
Author
Galvão, Cleber
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4171.3.12
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1175-5326
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Rhagovelia
,
robusta
group
Diagnosis.
This group is characterized by the mesonotum fully (or almost) covered by the pronotum; the macropterous female is without an elevated projection on the posterior angle of the pronotum; the female middle femur is cylindrical and unmodified; the apterous female abdomen is without a dorsal longitudinal median carina; female connexival margins are never expanded; the hind tibia has an apical spur, which when present is not crescent shaped; and the posterolateral margins of abdominal segment VII surrounding the male genital cavity are without black denticles (
Polhemus 1997
; Moreira
et al.
2012). The geographical distributions of the species of the
robusta
group recorded from Brazil are summarized in
Table 2
.