Mesovelia amoena Uhler, 1894

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 8

Mesovelia amoena Uhler, 1894

Geographical distribution: southern Canada in the Nearctic region to Brazil and the Galápagos Islands in the Neotropical region; introduced into the Hawaiian Islands.

Material from Cuba: Pinar del Río, Laguna La Cochinata, 16.IV.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 2Ψ (SDH, SIB) ( Nieser 1977).

Habitat: common, but cryptic species rarely seen on open waters; collected on floating logs, moss covered rocks, and rock crevices in springs and streams, or in lentic habitats with aquatic plants.