Paravelia juruana Polhemus & Polhemus

Rodrigues, Higor Daniel Duarte & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2016, A new species, new synonymy, and notes on Paravelia Breddin (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 56 (17), pp. 183-188 : 187

Paravelia juruana Polhemus & Polhemus

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Paravelia juruana Polhemus, J.T. & Polhemus, D.A., 1984b:501 .

Type material examined: Paratypes, all specimens macropterous, 2 ♂, 2 ♀ ( USNM), BRAZIL, S.A., [Amazonas] Vic. Joao Pessoa (Sao Phelipe) [= Eirunepé], River Jurua , 10.VII-20.IX.1936, No. 3796, A.M. Olalla .

Discussion: This species is known only from the type locality in southwestern Amazonas, Brazil ( Fig. 11 ). In the original description, the authors compared it with P. cupariana , mentioning that although both species are loosely related to each other, P. juruana differs from the latter by its longer body ( P. juruana : male 5.65, female 5.71; P. cupariana : male and female 3.57), and the first antennomere smaller than the width of head. Later, Spangler (1989) described P. biae from the State of Pará, northern Brazil, and compared this species with P. platensis (Berg, 1883) and P. williamsi (Hungerford, 1930) , species that are not morphologically similar to one another. In fact, P. juruana and P. biae are more similar to each oth- er because both have the body color dark brown to blackish, posterior angle of the pronotum forming a digitiform process, and the basal macula of the fore wing does not start from the humeral angle and ends before the posterior margin of the pronotum. However, P. juruana has the apical macula of the fore wing projected laterally in the posterior region ( Fig. 8 ), whereas in P. biae it is evenly ovate, without projections ( Rodrigues et al., 2014b: p. 22, fig. 13c).

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FIGURE 11: Distribution records for four species of Paravelia; green square surrounded by a dotted line represents the type locality of P. cupariana, a new junior synonymy of P. spinifera.

FIGURES 8‑10: Dorsal view of Paravelia spp.: (8) Paravelia juruana, male paratype, white arrow indicates digitiform process of posterior angle of pronotum; (9) P. cupariana syn. nov., female paratype, black arrow indicates the humeral angle; (10) P. spinifera (female from Ilha de Outeiro, Pará, Brazil).