Rhagovelia cali Polhemus 1997
Creators: name: Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra
name: Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia
name: Morales, Irina
name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Rhagovelia
Rhagovelia cali

description: Rhagovelia cali Polhemus, 1997
(Fig. 6A, 13A)
Rhagovelia cali Polhemus, 1997: 65–68.
Diagnosis. Body length: apterous male (~3.9), apterous female (~4.1), macropterous male (~4.3), macropterous female (~4.7). General color uniformly blackish-grey. Median length of apterous pronotum shorter than three times median length of exposed mesonotum, but longer than dorsal eye length. Posterior margin of pronotum convex. Ventral abdominal sutures simple and unmodified. Male antennomere III not enlarged. Male hind tibia straight, with eight small spines on basal half of posterior margin. Male paramere and proctiger as in Polhemus (1997: 77, figs. 57, 60). Female middle femur with a transverse constriction medially. Posterolateral angles of female abdominal laterotergite VII folded mesally and meeting over basal portion of tergum VIII, with small tufts of black setae. Female abdominal tergum VIII angled downward at 45°.
Distribution. COLOMBIA: Antioquia (Polhemus 1997; this work), Nariño (Padilla-Gil 2016, 2019a, 2020), Quindío (Morales-Castaño & Molano-Rendón 2008, this work), Risaralda (this work), Valle del Cauca (Polhemus 1997) (Fig. 6A). ECUADOR (Buzzetti and Cianferoni 2011).
Material examined. Antioquia: Frontino, Quebrada Murindo, vía Dabeiba-Uramita, 784 m, 6°53’20.1” N, 76°14’40.8” W, 13.VIII.2016, (F. Molano): 1 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05561). Santa Fe de Antioquia, Quebrada Los Perros, Vía Santa Fe de Antioquia-Cañasgordas, 1769 m, 6°37’20.5” N, 75°52’28.8” W, 13.VIII.2016, (F. Molano): 7 ♂ apterous, 2 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05562). Sonsón, Cerro Las Cruces, 3000 m, 06.I.2010, (L. Ríos): 1 ♂ apterous, 1 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05941). Quindío: Calarcá, Vereda San Rafael, quebrada La Virgen, 1994 m, 13.VII.2005, (Proyecto 249): 13 ♂ apterous, 1 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05760). Calarcá, Vereda San Rafael, quebrada La Virgen, 1994 m, 13.VII.2005, (J. Cobos): 1 ♂ macropterous, 9 ♂ apterous, 3 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05762). Filandia, Bremen, 1868 m, 08.VII.2005, (H. Suárez): 3 ♂ apterous, 1 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05764). Risaralda: Pueblo Rico, Vereda Montebello, inmediaciones del Parque Nacional Natural Tatamá, Reserva Natural Montezuma, cuenca Río Taiba, 1300 m, 01.XI.2014, (M.I. Castro): 4 ♂ apterous, 2 ♀ apterous (UPTC-In-05560). Pueblo Rico, Vereda Montebello, estación 3, Río Claro, 1300 m, 17.IV.2014, (D. Díaz & J. Arévalo): 1 ♂ apterous (UPTC-In- 05949). Pueblo Rico, Vereda Montebello, finca Montezuma, 17.IV.2014, (D. Díaz & J. Arévalo): 1 ♀ macropterous (UPTC-In-05950).
description: Published as part of Galindo-Malagón, Ximena Alejandra, Mondragón-F, Silvia Patricia, Morales, Irina & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2022, New species, synonymies and records in the genus Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Colombia, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 5087 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5819717