Mesovelia bila Jaczewski, 1928

Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía, 2022, Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina), Zootaxa 5104 (4), pp. 451-505 : 458

Mesovelia bila Jaczewski, 1928

Mesovelia bila Jaczewski, 1928 : Ann. Mus. Zool. Polonici, 77–79.

General distribution. Brazil, Argentina ( Damgaard et al. 2012).

Habitat. Little information exists regarding the habitat associations of this species. Jaczewski (1928) reported the first collections of M. bila from a very shallow and small pool in a forest. Subsequent reports of collections were made from lentic habitats, on floating aquatic plants in small pools ( Harris & Drake 1941) and at the margins of unshaded marshlands with dense vegetation ( Torres et al. 2007). This species was also collected from lotic habitats, in standing or slow-moving water along the margins of streams and artificial channels with emergent and submerged vegetation ( Fernández & López Ruf 2006) and in shaded streams without aquatic vegetation ( Torres et al. 2007).

In INR, specimens were collected from the margins of the Iberá Lagoon in shallow waters with emergent and floating vegetation (Estévez et al. 2003).