Rhagovelia
Creators: name: Padilla-Gil, Dora N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Rhagovelia

description: Key to Rhagovelia species of the robusta group from Colombia
Information for species previously described follows Polhemus (1997).
1. Male length <3.5, maximum width <1.2. Posterior trochanter unarmed, lacking teeth or pegs; (male paramere distinctive (Fig. 23)).......................................................................................... R. zeteki
- Male length ≥ 3.8, maximum width ≥ 1.3. Posterior trochanter bearing several small teeth............................2
2. Posterior femur with 2 regular and parallel rows of teeth on distal half of posterior margin, the dorsal row with varied disposition of these teeth..................................................................................... 3
- Posterior femur with a dorsal spine row only, ventral surface of femur below this row bearing either~4 irregular longitudinal spine rows or several small black asperities or pegs of irregular disposition........................................ 6
3. Hind femur with dorsal spine row containing 2 teeth of much larger size than the others, separated by 1 or 3 smaller teeth…..4
- Hind femur with dorsal spine row containing 2 or 3 teeth of much larger size than the others, separated by 4 or 5 smaller teeth.................................................................................................... 5
4. Smaller species, male length 3.85, maximum width 1.3. Hind femur with dorsal spine row containing 2 teeth of much larger size than the others, separated by 2 smaller teeth; male paramere distinctive (Fig. 7)........................... R. rubra
- Larger species, male length 5.8, maximum width 1.8. Hind femur with dorsal spine row containing 2 teeth of much larger size than the others, separated by 3 smaller teeth (Fig. 2); male paramere distinctive (Fig. 3)................. R. cachipai sp. n.
5. Male length 4.35, maximum width 1.4. Hind femur with dorsal spine row containing 2 teeth of much larger size than the others, separated by 4 or 5 smaller teeth; male paramere distinctive (Fig. 24).................................. R. sinuata
- Male length 4.59, maximum width 1.62. Hind femur with dorsal spine row containing 12 teeth, with 3 teeth of much larger size than the others, the first large tooth followed by 5 teeth of progressively decreasing size distally, then 2 more large teeth followed by 4 more decreasing teeth; male paramere distinctive (Fig. 25)................................ R. venezuelana
6. Larger species, male length 5.93, maximum width 2.13. Hind femur with a dorsal row and ventral surface bearing with ~4 irregular longitudinal rows (Fig. 14). Hind tibia with teeth of equal size, male paramere distinctive (Fig. 15)................................................................................................... R. nariñensis sp. n.
- Smaller species, male length ≤ 5.8, maximum width ≤ 2.0. Hind femur with a dorsal spine row and ventral surface bearing several small black asperities or pegs of irregular disposition. Hind tibia with distal 2/3 with black largest tooth; male paramere
distinctive according to species........................................................................... 7 7. Male length 5.6, maximum width 2.0. Hind femur with a dorsal longitudinal row of 9 black teeth, consisting of 3 small teeth followed by a gap, then 5 teeth on distal 2/3 with 1 very large spine-like tooth, followed by 4 subequal peg-like teeth and 1 moderately large spine-like tooth near center of apex of femur (Figs. 8, 9); male paramere, male proctiger distinctive (Figs. 10, 11)..................................................................................... R. nicolai sp. n.
- Male length 5.86, maximum width 1.72. Hind femur with a dorsal longitudinal row of 6 black teeth, consisting of 1 small tooth on basal third, followed by a gap, then 5 teeth on distal half, with a large, forward-curving tooth followed by 3 teeth of progressively decreasing size distally, then another triangular black tooth near center of femoral apex (Fig. 18); male paramere and proctiger distinctive (Figs. 19, 20)......................................................... R. imperatrix sp. n.
description: Published as part of Padilla-Gil, Dora N., 2011, Four new species of Rhagovelia in the robusta group from Colombia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae), pp. 35-46 in Zootaxa 2975 on pages 44-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205045