Mesovelia amoena 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

Mesovelia amoena Uhler, 1894

Fig. 5A, C

Material examined.

French Guiana • 3 apterous ♀; Reserve Naturelle Nationale des Nouragues , Camp Inselberg ; 4.0892, -52.6772; 16 Oct. 2016; A.J.J. Crumière, A. Khila, F.F.F. Moreira, W. Toubiana leg.; CEIOC 81290 • 9 apterous ♀; same, except, waterfall with moss and litter; [4.09, -52.68]; 17 Oct. 2016; CEIOC 81291 • same, except CEIOC 81292.

Distribution.

Canada ( Chagnon and Fournier 1948), United States ( Hungerford 1924), Mexico ( Andersen and J. Polhemus 1980), Belize ( Spangler 1990), Cuba ( Nieser 1977), Jamaica ( Usinger 1968), Dominican Republic ( Spangler 1990), Puerto Rico ( Harris and Drake 1941), U.S. Virgin Islands ( Rogers and Cruz-Rivera 2021), St. Eustatius ( Cobben 1960), Martinique ( de Kort-Gommers and Nieser 1969), Costa Rica ( Spangler 1990), Panama ( Harris and Drake 1941), St. Vincent & the Grenadines ( Jaczewski 1930), Curaçao ( Cobben 1960), Bonaire ( Cobben 1960), Grenada ( Uhler 1894), Trinidad & Tobago ( Hynes 1948), Colombia ( Alvarez and Roldán-Pérez 1983), French Guiana (this work), Brazil ( Jaczewski 1928), Argentina ( Harris and Drake 1941), Galápagos Islands ( Peck 2001), Hawaiian Islands ( Gagné and Howarth 1975).

Family Veliidae

Figures

Figure 5. A, B habitus, dorsal view A Mesovelia amoena B Rhagovelia brunae C, D geographic distribution in French Guiana C M. amoena D R. brunae. Stars indicate new records; question mark indicates an imprecise record (only the country is known, but not a specific locality). Scale bars: 2.0 mm.