Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourao dos Santos, Crumiere, Antonin Jean Johan, Toubiana, William, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2022, New species and new records of semiaquatic bugs (Arthropoda, Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from French Guiana, ZooKeys 1126, pp. 155-199 : 155

Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894

Figs 10A , 11

Material examined.

French Guiana • 2 apterous ♀; Reserve Naturelle Nationale des Nouragues , Camp Inselberg; 4.0892, -52.6772; 14 Oct. 2016; A.J.J. Crumière, A. Khila, F.F.F. Moreira, W. Toubiana leg. ; CEIOC 82149 • 1 apterous ♀; same, except 4.0799, -52.6860; 15 Oct. 2016; CEIOC 82148 • 1 apterous ♂; localities near Cayenne ; [4.86, -52.34]; 12-13 Oct. 2016; A.J.J. Crumière, A. Khila, F.F.F. Moreira, W. Toubiana leg. ; CEIOC 82150.

Distribution.

Hispaniola Island (D. Polhemus 1997), St. Kitts & Nevis ( Bacon 1956), Dominica ( Bacon 1956), Martinique ( de Kort-Gommers and Nieser 1969), St. Lucia (D. Polhemus 1997), Costa Rica (D. Polhemus 1997), Panama ( Champion 1898), St. Vincent & the Grenadines ( Uhler 1893), Grenada ( Uhler 1894), Trinidad & Tobago ( Gould 1931), Colombia ( Gould 1931), Venezuela ( Hungerford 1944), French Guiana (this work), Brazil ( Gould 1931), Ecuador (D. Polhemus 1997).

Figures

Figure 10. Habitus, dorsal view A Rhagovelia elegans B R. ephydros C R. equatoria D R. evidis E R. guianana F R. humboldti. Scale bars: 2 mm.

Figure 11. Geographic distribution of Rhagovelia elegans, R. ephydros, R. equatoria, R. evidis. R. guianana and R. humboldti in French Guiana. Stars, squares and circle indicate new records; question marks indicate imprecise records (only the country is known, but not a specific locality).