Microvelia pulchella (Westwood, 1834)
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Microvelia pulchella (Westwood, 1834) |
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Microvelia pulchella (Westwood, 1834) View in CoL
This species of veliid water strider is known from the Virgin Islands, reported from St. Thomas, as well as Puerto Rico and other Caribbean Islands ( Barber 1939; de Kort- Gommer and Nieser 1969). We found this taxon in saline pools in and around the mangroves at Magens Beach, and in both Spring Road ghut and Cats and Chickens ghut, as well as in the water hazards at the Herman E. Moore Golf Course in St. Thomas. Barber (1939) reported the congeneric M. robusta Uhler, 1894 from St. Thomas also, but it was not collected in our surveys.
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