Rhagovelia whitei (Breddin)

Dias-Silva, Karina, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Giehl, Nubia França Da Silva, Nóbrega, Caroline Correa & Cabette, Helena Soares Ramos, 2013, Gerromorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of eastern Mato Grosso State, Brazil: checklist, new records, and species distribution modeling, Zootaxa 3736 (3), pp. 201-235 : 227

Rhagovelia whitei (Breddin)

Distribution in Brazil: PA, MA, MT, GO, MG, MS, SP.

Biological aspects: Rhagovelia whitei is even more common and widespread on eastern MT than R. tenuipes . More than 100 specimens have been collected on 1st and 2nd order streams flowing through rupestrian Cerrado and well-preserved gallery forests.

Comments: This species occurs on Paraguay, northern, central-western, and southeastern Brazil, where it was recorded from Amazon, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest biomes. The material recorded by Dias-Silva et al. (2010) as R. traili actually corresponds to R. whitei .

Material examined: PT 0 8, (1♂), [nº 115], 30.IV.2003. PT 0 9, (4♂, 2♀), [nº 2448], 19.IX.2010. PT 0 7, (2♂, 2♀), [nº 2447]; (2♂), [nº 2456]; (1♂, 1♀), [nº 3861]; (1♂), [nº 3869], 26.IX.2010. PT 12, (4♂, 5♀), [nº 2450]; (3♂, 4♀), [nº 2451]; 3♂, 6♀), [nº 2453]; (2♂, 4♀), [nº 3864]; (1♂, 1♀), [nº 3867], 24.IX.2010. PT 10, (7♂, 8♀), [nº 3848], 25.IX.2010. PT 11, (1♂), [nº 2495]; (4♂, 1♀), [nº 2498]; (3♂, 1♀), [nº 2499], 17.IX.2010. PT 33, (1♂, 1♀), [nº 2586], 02.XI.2007; (3♂), [nº 2912], 03.VIII.2007; (1♂), [nº 3146], 02.XI.2007. PT 32, (3♀), [nº 2787]; (3♂), [nº 3087], 02.XI.2007; (1♂), [nº 2987], 02.VII.2007. PT 13, (1♀), [nº 2793], 06.XI.2007; (2♂), [nº 3661], 06.XI.2007. PT 14, (1♀), [nº 2857], 16.IX.2007. PT 17, (5♀), [nº 2964], 11.IX.2007. PT 20, (1♂), [nº 678]; (1♂, 1♀), [nº 680]; (3♂, 3♀), [nº 670]; (1♀), [nº 689]; (1♂), [nº 676]; (1♂), [nº 690]; (2♀), [nº 697], 05.IV.2004.