Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia Author Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Author Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan 0000-0003-2214-2993 Current address: Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. antonin. crumiere @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2214 - 2993 & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, 46 allée d’Italie, F- 69364, Lyon, France. antonin.crumiere@gmail.com Author Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia 0000-0001-6730-1535 Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “ Luis Gonzalo Andrade ”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. & patriciamondragon 18 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6730 - 1535 patriciamondragon18@gmail.com Author Morales, Irina 0000-0003-2456-5674 Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural “ Luis Gonzalo Andrade ”, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. & irina. morales @ uptc. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2456 - 5674 irina.morales@uptc.edu.co Author Khila, Abderrahman Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, 46 allée d’Italie, F- 69364, Lyon, France. Author Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo 0000-0002-6692-0323 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & ppmeiameiameia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6692 - 0323 ppmeiameiameia@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-04-14 4958 1 226 251 journal article 7253 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.12 4913307f-1e58-4664-8422-3c3a2acc837d 1175-5326 4691626 42388795-6C1D-47EF-8D7B-6F6D5A3CDAE5 Mesovelia mulsanti White, 1879 ( Figs 23 , 32 ) New records. PANAMA • 4 apterous males, 4 apterous females; Colón , Gamboa , Río Chagres ; 9.13219° N , - 79.69418° W ; 8 May 2015 ; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79921 . • 6 apterous males, 10 apterous females; Colón , Gamboa , artificial pool; 9.12086° N , - 79.70374° W ; 9 May 2015 ; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79919 . Remarks. This is the most common and widespread species of the genus in the Americas, ranging from Canada to Argentina , besides having been introduced in the Hawaiian Islands ( Damgaard et al. 2012 ). There is only one previous record from Panama ( Champion 1898 ), from near Panama City . The record above is the first from Colón Province . Río Chagres is a large river, where the mesoveliids were collected moving on top of hydrophytes with large leaves that almost totally covered the surface of the water in the sampled area. The artificial pool where Mes. mulsanti was collected had a fair diversity of semiaquatic bugs. In addition to this species, Lipogomphus leucostictus , Platyvelia brachialis , Microvelia fantastika , Mi. mimula and Limnogonus hyalinus have been collected in the same habitat. The pool occupies about 40 m 2 under some trees, and was massively covered by hydrophytes with minute leaves, with almost no open water.