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Issue: Vol. 4144 No. 4: 29 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.4.8
Page range: 584–592
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Oiovelia (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae) from Mesoamerica, with an identification key to the genus

Department of Biological Sciences, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Assis, SP, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Hemiptera Neotropics new record Veliinae small water striders

Abstract

Oiovelia johnpolhemi sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on macropterous specimens collected in Mexico and Belize. This species is the tenth of the genus, and represents its first record outside South America. An updated identification key and distribution maps of all species of Oiovelia are presented. Finally, photographs of the macropterous form of O. spumicola Spangler are presented for the first time.

 

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    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1

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