Microvelia hozari Hoberlandt 1952
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Kolínová, Zdislava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Microvelia
Microvelia hozari

description: Microvelia hozari Hoberlandt, 1952   
 Microvelia hozari Hoberlandt, 1952: 29–32, Pl. VII: Figs 50–55, Pl. X: Fig. 71 (original description, differential diagnosis).   
The holotype and 79 paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:  
HOLOTYPE (J): ‘ Kilis [hw] / Anat.[p] 20.VIII.47 [hw] / Exp.N. Mus.ČSR [p] // Holotypus [p, red label] // Holotypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / apt. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // J [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1077 [hw, orange label]’.  
PARATYPES (15 JJ apter.): ‘ Kilis [hw] / Anat. [p] 20.VIII.47 [hw] / Exp. N. Mus. ČSR [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / apt. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.  
PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘ Kilis [hw] / Anat. [p] 20.VIII.47 [hw] / Exp. N. Mus. ČSR [p] // Allotypus [p, red label] // Allotypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / apt. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // ♀ [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1086 [hw, orange label]’.  
PARATYPES (19 ♀♀ apter.): ‘ Kilis [hw] / Anat. [p] 20.VIII.47 [hw] / Exp. N. Mus. ČSR [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / apt. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1097, 1098, 1099, 1100, 1101, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1109, 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1114, 1115, 1116, 1118 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.  
PARATYPES (3 ♀♀ apter.): ‘Suluhan, Toros / Anat. 1[p]0.[hw] VIII. 47 / Exp. N. Mus. ČSR [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / apt. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1119, 1120, 1121 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.  
PARATYPE (J macr.): ‘Afrin near / Musabeyli [hw] / Anat. [p] 20.VIII.47 [hw] / Exp. N. Mus, ČSR [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / f. macr. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // J [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1122 [hw, orange label]’.  
PARATYPES (14 JJ macr.): ‘ Kilis [hw] / Anat. [p] 20.VIII.47 [hw] / Exp. N. Mus. ČSR [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / f. macr. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1123, 1124, 1125, 1126, 1127, 1128, 1129, 1130, 1131, 1132, 1133, 1134, 1135, 1137 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.  
PARATYPES (21 ♀♀ macr.): ‘ Kilis [hw] / Anat. [p] 20.VIII.47 [hw] / Exp. N. Mus. ČSR [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / f. macr. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]48 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1138, 1139, 1140, 1142, 1143, 1144, 1145, 1146, 1147, 1148, 1150, 1151, 1152, 1153, 1154, 1155, 1156, 1157, 1158, 1159 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.  
PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘ Paratypus [hw, red pencil] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / f. apt. J / Kilis, Anatolia / 20.VIII.47 / Exp. N. Mus. [hw, white label with black frame submarginally] // Caput, antenna / thorax / abdomen / L. Hoberlandt [hw, white label with black frame submarginally]’. (Specimen mounted on a slide; Slide Box 2).  
PARATYPES (J apter., ♀ apter.): ‘ Paratypus [hw, red pencil] / Microvelia / hozari sp. n. / f. apt.J + ♀ / Kilis, Anatolia / 20.VIII.47 / Exp. N. Mus. [hw, white label with black frame submarginally] // Corpora / L. Hoberlandt [hw, white label with black frame submarginally]’. (Specimens mounted on a single slide; Slide Box 2).  
 Note. Collection also contains 10 slides with various body parts of paratype specimens (Slide Box 2).   
 Current status. Valid species: Microvelia (Picaultia) hozari Hoberlandt, 1952 (see ANDERSEN 1995, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2003, AUKEMA et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 821-890 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on pages 841-842, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740731