Rhagovelia spinosa Gould, 1931

Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra, Morales, Irina & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Revision of the Rhagovelia angustipes complex (Insecta: Hemiptera: Veliidae from Colombia, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 167-225 : 208

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Rhagovelia spinosa Gould, 1931 View in CoL

( Figs. 17A, 17B View FIGURE 17 , 19S View FIGURE 19 , 20S View FIGURE 20 , 26B View FIGURE 26 )

Rhagovelia spinosa Gould, 1931: 43 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Body length ~ 2.60 in the male and ~ 3.10 in the female. Antennomere II shorter than III. Tarsal formula 3-3-3. All coxae and trochanters yellow; middle pair rarely brown ( Fig. 17B View FIGURE 17 ). Male fore tibia slightly curved ( Figs. 17A, 17B View FIGURE 17 ). Male hind trochanter without spines. Male hind femur about as thick as middle femur, with 3–4 spines ( Figs. 17A, 17B View FIGURE 17 ). Ratio of male hind femur/tibia length ~0.82/1.00. Male hind tibia without spines or apical spur ( Figs. 17A, 17B View FIGURE 17 ). Lateral margins of male abdomen tapering more or less evenly to apex ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ). Central shiny areas on dorsum of abdominal segments V–VIII or IV–VIII ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ). Male abdominal sternum VII with a stout, slightly curved median spine close to anterior margin. Male abdominal segment VIII subcylindrical, with lateral margins almost parallel, dorsally about as long as mediotergite VII ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ). Paramere and proctiger as in Figs. 19S View FIGURE 19 , 20S View FIGURE 20 .

Distribution. Colombia: Caquetá (this work), Casanare ( Aristizábal 2017), Córdoba ( Aristizábal 2017), Meta ( Aristizábal 2017), Nariño ( Padilla-Gil 2012, Padilla-Gil 2017), Putumayo (Padilla-Gil 2016, Padilla-Gil 2019a). Costa Rica ( Moreira et al. 2015). Ecuador ( Gould 1931). Peru ( Bacon 1956). Honduras ( Bacon 1956) ( Fig. 26B View FIGURE 26 ).

Material examined. Caquetá: San José del Fragua, inspección Yurayaco after the town, 2017-IX-16 (J. Rivera & P. Sterling): 1 ♂ apterous ( UPTC) .