Rhagovelia agra Drake 1957
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos
name: Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva
name: Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez
name: Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira
name: Magalhães, Oséias Martins
name: Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim
name: Martins, Thaynara De Souza
name: Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da
name: Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira
name: Salles, Frederico Falcão
name: Viala, Séverine
name: Khila, Abderrahman
name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Rhagovelia
Rhagovelia agra

description: Rhagovelia agra Drake, 1957
Figs. 36B–D, 37B
Diagnosis. Member of the lucida group (Polhemus 1997). Body length approximately 3.8 mm; male antennomere III usually distinctly expanded, clearly thicker than antennomere II; male hind femur with row of short spines on proximal half of posterior surface; apterous female abdominal mediotergite I strongly swollen, projecting above metanotum in lateral view; apterous female abdominal mediotergites II–IV not forming a wide longitudinal carina (Moreira 2012).
New records. BRAZIL — Rio de Janeiro • Cachoeiras de Macacu, Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu, stream, leaf litter, current; −22.453, −42.770; 29. IV.2013, JR Mermudes leg.; 4 males, 4 females, CEIOC 81871 • Itatiaia, Parque Nacional de Itatiaia, road, researcher's house; 13−16. VI.2014; L Barbosa; 3 males, CEIOC 81872 • Macaé, Sana, Sete Quedas Waterfall; −22.3152, −42.1914; 26. III.2015; FFF Moreira, IRS Cordeiro, JMS Rodrigues, TS Martins leg.; 3 males, 4 females, CEIOC 27949 • Same Peito do Pombo River; −22.3176, −42.1897; 9 males, 4 females, CEIOC 27955 • Same except Peito do Pombo River, station 2; −22.3165, −42.1902; 29 male, 13 females, CEIOC 27954 • Same except Escorrega Watefall; −22.3173, −42.1859; 46 male, 15 females, CEIOC 27958 • Same except da Mãe Waterfall; −22.3159, −42.1906; 70 males, 60 females, CEIOC 27982 • Magé, Grande Waterfall; −22.5857, −43.1332; 05. III.2016; FFF Moreira, OM Magalhães, FS Motta leg.; 18 males, 10 females, CEIOC 27964 • Petrópolis, Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos, Jacó River, BR-495 Road; −22.4640, −43.0906; 30.XII.2014; FFF Moreira, IRS Cordeiro, FS Motta leg.; 35 males, 30 females, CEIOC 27968 • Teresópolis, Serra do Subayo, Sayonara City; −22.446, −42.890; 28.XII.2014; FFF Moreira, IRS Cordeiro, FS Motta leg.; 11 males, 11 females, CEIOC 79963 • Same except Paquequer River below dam; −22.4512, −43.0012; 27.XII.2014; 50 males, 30 females, CEIOC 27969, 27978 • Same except right branch of Paquequer River; −22.4561, −42.9966; 28.XII.2014; 49 males, 26 females, CEIOC 27984.
Distribution in Brazil. RJ.
description: Published as part of Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Cordeiro, Isabelle Da Rocha Silva, Floriano, Carla Fernanda Burguez, Paiva, Nathália De Oliveira, Magalhães, Oséias Martins, Júnior, Evaldo Alves Joaquim, Martins, Thaynara De Souza, Silva, Rafaella Cardoso Da, Siqueira, Gabriel Vieira, Salles, Frederico Falcão, Viala, Séverine, Khila, Abderrahman & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2023, Descriptions of new species and new records of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha) from southeastern Brazil, pp. 1-86 in Zootaxa 5393 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5393.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10437804