Microvelia hamadae dos Santos, Rodrigues, Couceiro & Moreira, 2021

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5393 (1), pp. 1-86 : 18

Microvelia hamadae dos Santos, Rodrigues, Couceiro & Moreira, 2021

Fig. 11B, E

Diagnosis. Body shorter than 1.5 mm; apterous pronotum covering mesonotum and most of metanotum; apterous metanotum visible only as very short central stripe; posterior margin of male abdominal mediotergite VII with pronounced concavity; male abdominal segment VIII deeply inserted into pregenital abdomen, with posterior margin dorsally concave, ventrally with weak median notch; apterous female abdominal laterotergites elevated to approximately 90º, slightly bowed on sides of mediotergites II–V, convergent and slightly reflected on sides of VI–VIII; forewings of macropterous specimens with proximal pair of elongated maculae, distal pair of rounded maculae, and median macula close to apex ( dos Santos et al. 2021).

New records. BRAZIL — Minas Gerais • Bocaina de Minas, Alcantilado River , small waterfall; −22.2964, −44.5566; 18.XI.2014; FFF Moreira, IRS Cordeiro, FS Motta, RB Braga, JMS Rodrigues leg.; 1 male, 9 females, CEIOC 81774 .

Distribution in Brazil. BA, MG*, PA.

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FIGURE 11. Collected specimens (A–C), and distribution in southeastern Brazil and adjacent areas (D–F). Gerromorpha, Gerridae. A. Microvelia ayacuchana, apterous male from Iúna, Espírito Santo (−20.3613, −41.7309). B. Microvelia hamadae, apterous male from Bocaina de Minas, Minas Gerais (−22.2964, −44.5566). C. Microvelia hinei, apterous female from Conceição da Barra, Espírito Santo (−18.2692, −39.7814). Scale bars: 1 mm (A–B), 0.5 mm (C).