Mesovelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933

Pelingen, Arthien Lovell, Zettel, Herbert, Pangantihon, Clister V, Aldaba, Kyra Mari Dominique, Fatallo, Earl Kevin, de Leon, Jemillie Madonna & Freitag, Hendrik, 2020, Contributions to the knowledge of water bugs in Mindoro Island, Philippines, with a species checklist of Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 56883-56883 : 56883

Mesovelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Mesoveliacf.horvathi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Baco; locationRemarks: 353u; Event: eventDate: 24.08.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 6 males (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Mesoveliacf.horvathi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HBCb; Event: eventDate: 08.07.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Mesoveliacf.horvathi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TR2j; Event: eventDate: 08.07.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2 males (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Mesoveliacf.horvathi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TR2e; Event: eventDate: 10.08.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Mesoveliacf.horvathi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TR2b; Event: eventDate: 23.09.2017

Distribution

Mesovelia horvathi (s.l.) Lundblad, 1933 (see Lundblad 1933) was reported from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines (see Fig. 7 for new records), Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam ( Lundblad 1937, Chandra and Jehamalar 2011, Yang and Murphy 2011, Zettel 2014).

Taxon discussion

For identification, refer to the key by Yang and Murphy (2011). More recently, Jehamalar et al. (2019) have shown that Mesovelia horvathi consists of a complex of closely-related species. At least two species of this complex occur in the Philippines. Their correct names remain uncertain. As a result, we refrain from concluding that the previous records from other areas in the Philippines and specimens in this study are indeed M. horvathi .

Habitat

Mesovelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933 is common in plains and mountains in stagnant, slow flowing and even in brackish water ( Yang and Murphy 2011). We found the species in similar, partly identical habitats like Mesovelia vittigera , but so far, never syntopic with the former species.

Figures

Figure 7. Distribution of the collecting sites of Gerromorpha material (part 1) treated in this study.