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 guachiconoense
Padilla-Gil, 2019
(
Figs. 19V
,
20V
,
23A
)
Rhagovelia guachiconoense
Padilla-Gil, 2019b: 65
.
Diagnosis
(based on
Padilla-Gil 2019b
; no specimens examined). Body length
3.64 in
the macropterous male. Antennomere II shorter than III. Tarsal formula 3-3-3. Fore and hind coxae and trochanters yellow. Male fore tibia curved; apex flattened and widened. Male hind trochanter without spines. Male hind femur thinner middle femur, without spines. Ratio of male hind femur/tibia length ~0.64/1.00. Male hind tibia without spines or apical spur. Dorsum of male abdominal segments V–VIII shiny black centrally. Median carina on male abdominal sterna VII–VIII. Male abdominal segment VIII subcylindrical. Paramere and proctiger as in
Figs. 19V
,
20V
.
Distribution
.
Colombia
:
Cauca
(
Padilla-Gil 2019b
,
Padilla-Gil 2020
) (
Fig. 23A
).
Comments
.
This
species was recently described based on a single macropterous male deposited in the
Universidad
de
Nariño
(
San Juan de Pasto
,
Colombia
), to which we did not have access.
It
might eventualy prove to be a synonym of
R. longipes
, pending examination of the
holotype
.