Revision of the Rhagovelia angustipes complex (Insecta: Hemiptera: Veliidae from Colombia
Author
Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra
0000-0003-0617-9403
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica-SisBio, Laboratorio de Entomología, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, BY, Colombia. & ximena. galindo @ uptc. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0617 - 9403
ximena.galindo@uptc.edu.co
Author
Morales, Irina
0000-0003-2456-5674
Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica-SisBio, Laboratorio de Entomología, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, BY, Colombia. & irina. morales @ uptc. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2456 - 5674
irina.morales@uptc.edu.co
Author
Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
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Rhagovelia spinosa
Gould, 1931
(
Figs. 17A, 17B
,
19S
,
20S
,
26B
)
Rhagovelia spinosa
Gould, 1931: 43
.
Diagnosis.
Body length ~
2.60 in
the male and ~
3.10 in
the female. Antennomere II shorter than III. Tarsal formula 3-3-3. All coxae and trochanters yellow; middle pair rarely brown (
Fig. 17B
). Male fore tibia slightly curved (
Figs. 17A, 17B
). Male hind trochanter without spines. Male hind femur about as thick as middle femur, with 3–4 spines (
Figs. 17A, 17B
). Ratio of male hind femur/tibia length ~0.82/1.00. Male hind tibia without spines or apical spur (
Figs. 17A, 17B
). Lateral margins of male abdomen tapering more or less evenly to apex (
Fig. 17A
). Central shiny areas on dorsum of abdominal segments V–VIII or IV–VIII (
Fig. 17A
). Male abdominal sternum VII with a stout, slightly curved median spine close to anterior margin. Male abdominal segment VIII subcylindrical, with lateral margins almost parallel, dorsally about as long as mediotergite VII (
Fig. 17A
). Paramere and proctiger as in
Figs. 19S
,
20S
.
Distribution
.
Colombia
:
Caquetá
(this work),
Casanare
(
Aristizábal 2017
),
Córdoba
(
Aristizábal 2017
),
Meta
(
Aristizábal 2017
),
Nariño
(
Padilla-Gil 2012
,
Padilla-Gil 2017
),
Putumayo
(Padilla-Gil 2016,
Padilla-Gil 2019a
).
Costa Rica
(
Moreira
et al.
2015
).
Ecuador
(
Gould 1931
).
Peru
(
Bacon 1956
).
Honduras
(
Bacon 1956
) (
Fig. 26B
).
Material examined.
Caquetá
:
San José
del
Fragua
, inspección
Yurayaco
after the town,
2017-IX-16
(
J. Rivera
&
P. Sterling
):
1 ♂
apterous (
UPTC
)
.