Steinovelia permista
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Sites, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Steinovelia
Steinovelia permista

description: Steinovelia permista (Drake, 1951a)
(Figs. 1, 6)
Velia permista Drake, 1951a: 339 (original description);
Paravelia permista: Polhemus 1976: 512 (new combination);
Steinovelia permista: Polhemus & Polhemus 1993: 397 (new combination).
Apterous male holotype (Figs. 1 A–B, 1E). BL 4.43; HL 0.57; HW 0.70; ANT I 0.87, ANT II 0.70, ANT III lost, ANT IV lost; EYE 0.19; PL 1.32; PW 1.09; FORELEG: FEM 1.38, TIB 0.96, TAR I 0.09, TAR II 0.09, TAR III
0.28; MIDLEG: FEM 1.68, TIB 1.58, TAR I 0.09, TAR II 0.26, TAR III 0.36; HINDLEG: FEM 1.75, TIB 1.53, TAR I–III lost.
Head brown, with long brown setae on frons, adjacent to mesal eye margin, and posterolateral angles. Antenna light brown, apex of antennomere II darker. Eyes shining, dark red to blackish. Jugum without patch of silvery setae. Labium yellowish; distal portion of article III and entire IV brown. Pronotum yellow, lighter on posterior lobe, with brown spots laterally and medially on anterior lobe, and submedially on anterior portion of posterior lobe (Fig. 1A); patches of silvery setae laterally on anterior lobe. Ventral surface of humeri yellow. Thoracic pleura brown; lateral surfaces of acetabula brownish. Patches of silvery setae on proepisternum and dorsally to lateral surfaces of acetabula (Fig. 1E). Prosternum yellowish brown; meso- and metasterna dark brown. Ventral surfaces of acetabula yellow to brown. Coxae and trochanters yellow. Femora yellow on basal halves, then brown to dark brown with a preapical yellow band (Figs. 1 A–B). Tibiae brown to dark brown with a subbasal and a median yellow band (Figs. 1 A–B, 1E). Fore and middle tarsi mostly yellow, brown at apex. Abdominal mediotergites dark brown, darker on lateral margins. Laterotergites brown with yellow spots on anterolateral angles. Abdominal sterna dark brown to black with yellow to brown lateral margins; longitudinal stripe of silvery setae laterally on abdominal sterna II–III (Fig. 1E).
Posterior margin of eye touching anterior margin of pronotum or distant from it by up to 30% of dorsal eye length (Fig. 1A). Antennomere I thickest, curved laterally; II cylindrical; III–IV missing. Buccula lacking punctations. Labium reaching middle of mesosternum. Pronotum almost flat, distinctly constricted anterior to humeri; margins thickened on collar and posterior lobe; humeri not projecting; punctations small, deep, more numerous on posterior lobe (Fig. 1A). Pro- and mesopleura each with a row of punctations; few punctations on lateral surface of metacetabulum. Metasternum with a pair (1+1) of inconspicuous tubercles laterally underneath middle coxae. Wings absent. Legs covered by decumbent setae. Inner surfaces of fore tibia, middle femur, and hind femur and tibia each with several black spinules. Hind femur slightly incrassate, about 1.5 times as wide as middle femur (Fig. 1B). Hind tibia straight. Abdominal medio- and laterotergites covered by short shining setae, without long setae. Posterior margin of abdominal mediotergite VIII rounded, without central notch. Abdominal sternum VII with posterior margin widely concave and posterolateral angles weakly produced (Fig. 1B). Paramere long, wider centrally, with rounded apex.
Discussion. Steinovelia permista differs from S. stagnalis and S. virgata by having the pronotum almost flat (Fig. 1E), the humeri not projecting (Figs. 1A, 1C), and the hind femur about 1.5 times as wide as the middle femur (Figs. 1B, 1D), whereas in the other two species the pronotum is centrally elevated (Figs. 2G, 4G, 5E), the humeri are usually projecting (Figs. 2 A–B, 4A–C, 5A, 5C), and the hind femur is about as wide as the middle femur (Figs. 2D, 2F, 4E, 5B, 5D). Only the apterous form of S. permista is known, whereas S. vinnula is known from micropterous and macropterous forms. These two species also can be separated by the eyes located further from the anterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 3A), the projecting humeri (Fig. 3A), and the larger spines on the hind femur (Fig. 3C) in S. vinnula.
Distribution (Fig. 6). Haiti (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993); Puerto Rico (Polhemus & Polhemus 1993); Trinidad & Tobago (Drake 1951a).
Type material examined. Apterous ♂ holotype (NMNH), Trinidad, B. W. I., Oct. 27–29, 1938, Carl J. Drake, Holotype Velia permista Drake, C J Drake Coll. 1956.
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Rodrigues, Higor D. D. & Sites, Robert W., 2020, Revision of the American genus Steinovelia Polhemus & Polhemus, 1993 (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae), pp. 77-91 in Zootaxa 4729 (1) on pages 78-80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3629042