Velia (Plesiovelia) affinis filippii Tamanini, 1947

Berchi, Gavril Marius & Kment, Petr, 2015, Review of the family Veliidae in Romania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha), Zootaxa 3963 (1) : -

Velia (Plesiovelia) affinis filippii Tamanini, 1947

( Figs. 1 A, 2A)

Published record. Velia affinis: Davideanu et al. (2000) .

Material examined. ROMANIA: Tulcea county: Greci [intermittent stream], 45°12ʹ21ʺN 28°15ʹ05ʺE, 137 m a.s.l., 28. iv.2012, 1 ♂ (ma) 1 ♀ (ap); Luncavița [stream], 45°13ʹ37ʺN 28°18ʹ38ʺE, 103 m a.s.l., 3. viii.2011, 12 ♂♂ (ap) 13 ♀♀ (ap); Nifon [stream], 45°09ʹ19ʺN 28°23ʹ55ʺE, 120 m a.s.l., 3. viii.2011, 5 ♂♂ (ap) 3 ♀♀ (ap).

Remarks. There were two previous records, dating back to August, 1972 (Murighiol) and July, 1985 (Caraorman), both in Tulcea county ( Davideanu et al. 2000). According to our data, it looks as if Velia affinis filippii occurs only in south-eastern Romania, in Dobrogea. Here, the higher altitudes do not exceed 467 m a.s.l. We collected it from shaded streams, at altitudes ranging between 100 and 140 m a.s.l. ( Fig. 5 ).

General distribution. Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, European Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and north-eastern Italy ( Tamanini 1951; Benedek 1969, 1970; Josifov 1986; Andersen 1995; Protić & Živić 2007; Kment & Beran 2011; Protić 2011; Šeat 2013; this paper). The record of V. affinis filippii from Hungary is based on a single old record by Benedek (1970); however, the identification was recently confirmed as correct ( Boda et al. 2015).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Males of Velia species in dorsal view. A— Velia affinis filippii, B— V. caprai caprai, C— V. mancinii mancinii, D— V. saulii, E— V. serbica. (Scale bar: 1 mm. A—Tulcea county: Luncavița, B—Bihor county: Budureasa, C, E—Caraș-Severin county: Băile Herculane, D—Hunedoara county: Vaidei). Photographs: Denis Copilaș – Ciocianu.

FIGURE 5. Boxplots representing the altitudinal ranges of Veliidae in Romania.