Microvelia longipes Uhler, 1894

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Nery, Leticia, Rodrigues, Higor D. D. & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Alagoas and Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 103-159 : 133-134

Microvelia longipes Uhler, 1894

( Figs 85 , 90 )

Geographical distribution: Argentina ( Drake & Hussey 1955), Aruba ( Cobben 1960), Barbados ( De Kort-Gommers & Nieser 1969), Bolivia (Drake 1952), Bonaire ( Cobben 1960), Brazil (Drake 1952), Colombia (Drake 1952), Cuba ( Nieser 1977), Curaçao ( Cobben 1960), Dominican Republic ( Drake & Maldonado-Capriles 1956), Ecuador (Torre-Bueno 1924), French Guiana ( Motta et al. 2018), Grenada ( Uhler 1894a), Guyana ( Drake & Hussey 1955), Jamaica ( Lanigan & Hyslop 2011), Paraguay (Drake 1952), Peru (Drake 1952), Puerto Rico ( Drake & Maldonado-Capriles 1954), Saint Barthélemy ( Museo Civico di Rovereto 2010), Saint Eustatius ( Cobben 1960), Saint Kitts & Nevis ( Bass 2006), Saint Martin ( Cobben 1960), United States Virgin Islands ( University of California, Berkeley 2009), Trinidad & Tobago ( Hynes 1948), Venezuela ( Drake & Hussey 1955).

Distribution in Brazil: AL*, AM ( Polhemus 1990; Moreira & Campos 2012; Cordeiro & Moreira 2015), BA ( Moreira & Campos 2012), ES ( Moreira et al. 2010), MG ( Nieser & Melo 1997; Melo & Nieser 2004; Moreira & Barbosa 2012), MS ( Drake & Plaumann 1953), RJ (Moreira et al. 2012), RR ( Rodrigues et al. 2012), SC ( Drake & Plaumann 1955), SP (Moreira & Barbosa 2011; Castanhole et al. 2013).

Material examined: BRASIL • Alagoas • 3 males, 2 females; Piaçabuçu, APAP; -10.335850, -36.332680; 02 May 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & O.M. Magalhães col.; CEIOC 81253 . • 14 males, 38 females, 12 nymphs; Quebrangulo, RBPT, brejo; -9.260810, -36.415670; 04 Jul. 2018; C.F.B. Floriano, J.M.S. Rodrigues & J.F. Barbosa col.; CEIOC 81254 .

Figures

FIGURE 90. Geographical distribution of Microvelia ayacuchana, M. hinei, M. longipes, M. mimula, M. pulchella, M. quieta and M. venustatis in Alagoas and Sergipe, Northeast Brazil. Star indicates previously published record.

FIGURES 83–87. Collected specimens, dorsal view. 83. Microvelia ayacuchana. 84. M. hinei. 85. M. longipes. 86. M. mimula. 87. M. pulchella. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.