Rhagovelia calceola Padilla-Gil, 2011

Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra, Morales, Irina & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, A new species and updates on the Rhagovelia angustipes complex (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Veliidae) in Colombia, Zootaxa 5361 (3), pp. 367-389 : 373-374

Rhagovelia calceola Padilla-Gil, 2011

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Material examined. COLOMBIA. Santander. Bolívar, Vereda Locación, Finca Los Mangos , quebrada interior bosque, 6.0745, -74.2136, 431 m, 2021-VI-05 (Morales-Alba, A.F. & Martínez, D.C. leg.) : 1 apterous ♂, 1 apterous ♀ (UPTC-In-22651). Vereda Locación, Finca Los Mangos, quebrada interior bosque, 6.0761111, -74.2108333, 393 m, 2021-VI-05 (Morales-Alba, A.F. & Martínez, D.C. leg.) : 23 apterous ♂, 21 apterous ♀ (UPTC-In-22652).

Comments. Following the procedure established by D. Polhemus (1997), Padilla-Gil (2011) provisionally assigned R. calceola to the bisignata group due to the lack of macropterous specimens. Subsequently, Padilla-Gil (2015) described R. tricoma in the hambletoni group, because the macropterous forms displayed three closed cells on the forewings. Because Galindo-Malagón et al. (2021) synonymized both species, R. calceola can be definitively placed in the hambletoni group, which was overlooked by these authors.

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FIGURE 4. Geographic distribution, including new records: A. Rhagovelia gastrotricha; B. R. calceola; C. R. molanoi.