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) : -

Velia (Plesiovelia) mancinii mancinii Tamanini, 1947

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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 ). 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).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Males of Velia species in dorsal view. A— Velia affinis filippii, B— V. caprai caprai, C— V. mancinii mancinii, D— V. saulii, E— V. serbica. (Scale bar: 1 mm. A—Tulcea county: Luncavița, B—Bihor county: Budureasa, C, E—Caraș-Severin county: Băile Herculane, D—Hunedoara county: Vaidei). Photographs: Denis Copilaș – Ciocianu.

FIGURE 5. Boxplots representing the altitudinal ranges of Veliidae in Romania.