Velia (Plesiovelia) mancinii mancinii Tamanini, 1947

Berchi, Gavril Marius & Kment, Petr, 2015, Review of the family Veliidae in Romania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha), Zootaxa 3963 (1) : -

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Velia (Plesiovelia) mancinii mancinii Tamanini, 1947 View in CoL

( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 C, 2C)

Published records. Velia mancinii: Benedek (1969, 1970 ). Velia rivulorum (misidentification): Horváth (1877, 1897).

Material examined. ROMANIA: Caraș-Severin county: Baziaș [stream], 44°47ʹ26ʺN 21°24ʹ07ʺE, 83 m a.s.l., 13. ix.2014, 2 ♂♂ (ap) 1 ♀ (ap); Baziaș, 1873, 2 ♂♂ (ma); 20. vi.1888, 1 ♂ (ap), G. Horváth leg. [ HNHM, published as V. rivulorum by Horváth (1877, 1897), 1 ♂ (ma) also identified by Tamanini 1954 and Benedek 1968 as V. mancinii mancinii ]; Berzasca [stream], 44°37ʹ51ʺN 22°00ʹ18ʺE, 86 m a.s.l., 10. v.2014, 3 ♂♂ (ap) 1 ♀ (ap); Băile Herculane [stream], 44°58ʹ13ʺN 22°28ʹ21ʺE, 654 m a.s.l., 16. vii.2013, 10 ♂♂ (ap) 1 ♂ (ma) 10 ♀♀ (ap) 3 ♀♀ (ma); Moldova Nouă [stream], 44°43ʹ31ʺN 21°42ʹ42ʺE, 228 m a.s.l., 12. vii.2014, 1 ♂ (ap) 3 ♀♀ (ap); Potoc [stream], 45°37ʹ56ʺN 24°22ʹ11ʺE, 279 m a.s.l., 7. iii.2014, 1 ♂ (ap) 1 ♀ (ap). Mehedinți county: Dubova [stream], 44°37ʹ25ʺN 22°14ʹ57ʺE, 124 m a.s.l., 9. v.2014, 2 ♀♀ (ap); Dubova (Plavișevița) [stream], 44°34ʹ48ʺN 22°14ʹ12ʺE, 97 m a.s.l., 14. ix.2014, 2 ♂♂ (ap) 1 ♀ (ap); Dubova (Ponicova) [stream], 44°37ʹ10ʺN 22°13ʹ52ʺE, 285 m a.s.l., 14. ix.2014, 1 ♂ (ap) 1 ♀ (ap); Eșelnița [stream], 44°43ʹ36ʺN 22°21ʹ39ʺE, 168 m a.s.l., 9. v.2014, 3 ♂♂ (ap) 2 ♀♀ (ap); Negrușa [stream], 44°49ʹ36ʺN 22°29ʹ54ʺE, 575 m a.s.l., 22. i.2013, 3 ♂♂ (ap); Orșova [stream], 44°45ʹ08ʺN 22°25ʹ43ʺE, 231 m a.s.l., 10. v.2014, 2 ♂♂ (ap); Svinița [stream], 44°28ʹ52ʺN 22°08ʹ15ʺE, 88 m a.s.l., 10. v.2014, 1 ♀ (ap) 1 ♀ (ma).

Remarks. Benedek (1969, 1970) has mentioned V. mancinii from ‘Báziás’ [= Baziaș] as being in Yugoslavia; however, it is in Romania. This record is based on Horváth’s (1897) material misidentified as V. rivulorum . The occurrence of V. mancinii mancinii in Romania is now confirmed. We found it only in south-western Romania, in the limestone landscape of the Danubian Gorge, in small streams and occasionally small ponds or springs at altitudes ranging between 80 and 300 m a.s.l., but also in the Mehedinți and Cernei Mountains at altitudes exceeding 600 m a.s.l. ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ). In those mountains, V. serbica occurs at lower altitudes. Velia mancinii mancinii often coexists with Aquarius najas ( De Geer, 1773) (Gerridae) ; we also found it co-occurring with V. saulii .

General distribution. Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania ( Tamanini 1951; Josifov 1986; Andersen 1995; Kment & Beran 2011; this paper).