Foveavelia, a new South American genus of Veliinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) are distributed worldwide and play fundamental roles in limnic ecosystems. They are the most successful group of organisms to occupy the air-water interface, are important models to study ecology and evolution, and can be relevant tools in biomonitoring. Veliidae is the second most speciose family of semiaquatic bugs, but its internal classification, including subfamilies and genera, is artificial and based on symplesiomorphies. One of these non-monophyletic entities is Paravelia Breddin, 1898, the largest genus in the subfamily Veliinae.

Results

In an effort to better classify the Veliinae, we describe Foveavelia to hold five South American species previously placed in Paravelia. The new

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues HDD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10961057 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature