Mesovelia zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Crumière, Antonin Jean Johan, Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia, Morales, Irina, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Description of a new species and new records of Gerromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera Heteroptera) from Panama and Colombia, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 226-251 : 234

Mesovelia zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941

( Figs 24 , 32 )

New records. PANAMA • 1 apterous male; Colón, PR, creek close to Folijes River ; 9.12086° N, - 79.70374° W, 7 May 2015, A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79922 .

Remarks. Mesovelia zeteki has been reported from Panama, Colombia and northern Brazil ( Damgaard et al. 2012, Floriano et al. 2016). The record above is the second from Colón Province. This species was collected in water pools remaining from a dry creek.

Figures

FIGURES 23–24. Habitus, dorsal view. 23, Mesovelia mulsanti White, 1879. 24, Mes. zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.

FIGURES 32–35. Distribution of new records from Panamá. 32, Mesovelia mulsanti White, 1879 in blue circles; M. zeteki Harris & Drake, 1941 in green triangle. 33, Lipogomphus leucostictus (Champion, 1898) in yellow circle; Hydrometra caraiba Guérin-Méneville, 1857 in red circle; Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860) in blue triangle. 34, Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) raspa (Hungerford, 1929) in pink circle. 35, Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894 in orange hexagon; R. perija Polhemus, 1997 in purple triangle; R. rosensis Padilla-Gil, 2011 in green circles.