Rhagovelia hovana Hoberlandt, 1941

Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 821-890 : 851-852

Rhagovelia hovana Hoberlandt, 1941

Rhagovelia hovana Hoberlandt, 1941a: 72–73 , Figs 7–8 (original description).

The holotype and 8 paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Holotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / hovana n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (The specimen is card-mounted; both antennae, all legs on the right side, and pygophore dissected, mounted on four separate slides stored in Slide Box 3).

PARATYPES (3 JJ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / hovana n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Allotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / hovana n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (The specimen is card-mounted; left antenna and all middle and hind legs missing. The antenna and one middle and one hind leg mounted on a separate slide stored in Slide Box 3).

PARATYPES (3 ♀♀ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / hovana n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘ Madagascar / Env. de Rogez [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / hovana n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

Current status. Valid species (see HOBERLANDT 1951 c, POISSON 1963).