Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894

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 : 239-240

Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894

( Figs 28–29 , 35 )

New records. PANAMA • 3 apterous males, 8 macropterous males, 8 macropterous females; Colón, Gamboa ; 9.12117° N, - 79.70480° W; 8 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79929 • 2 macropterous males; Colón, puddle on Pipeline Road ; 9.11917° N, - 79.70609° W; 10 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79934 • 2 apterous males, 2 macropterous females; Colón, Pipeline Road, Seda River ; 9.15329° N, - 79.73663° W; 6 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79932 • 1 macropterous male, 1 macropterous female; Panama, Plantation Road , dry creek, puddle; 9.08556° N, - 79.65841° W; 17 May 2015; A.J.J. Crumière leg.; CEIOC 79931 .

Remarks. This species occurs from Hispaniola Island to Trinidad & Tobago in the Antilles, and from Costa Rica to southeastern Brazil ( Moreira et al. 2016). There are several previous records from Panama ( Champion 1898; Allee & Trovik 1927; Gould 1931; Drake 1948; Bacon 1956; Polhemus 1997), including the provinces of Bocas del Toro, Panama, and Coclé. The records from Colón above are the first from this province. The puddle on the muddy Pipeline Road is quite unstable and the specimens likely moved to this habitat from the surrounding creeks. The specimens from Gamboa were collected in small water pools remaining from a dry creek located under canopy. The water level was very low and it was the only species of Gerromorpha present.

Figures

FIGURES 28–31. Habitus, dorsal view. 28–29, Rhagovelia elegans Uhler, 1894. 28, Apterous. 29, Macropterous. 30, R. perija Polhemus, 1997. 31, R. rosensis Padilla-Gil, 2011. 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.