Friday, November 12, 2021

[Entomology • 2021] Microvelia pilosa • A New Species of Small Water Strider in the Genus Microvelia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan


Microvelia (Picaultia) pilosa 
Matsushima, Morii and Ohba, 

in Matsushima, Morii, Hiraishi et Ohba, 2021.

Abstract
A new species of small water strider (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae), Microvelia pilosa sp. nov., is described from Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. It belongs to the subgenus Picaultia Distant, 1913 within the genus Microvelia Westwood, 1834, and is similar to Microvelia japonica Esaki and Miyamoto, 1955 and Microvelia douglasi douglasi Scott, 1874. The new species can be distinguished from these two taxa by its blackish-brown body, small punctures on the pronotum, and arcuate right paramere that is slender only in the distal part. Our molecular phylogenetic analysis using the mitochondrial COI gene revealed that M. pilosa sp. nov. is genetically separated from some of the other Japanese Microvelia and is most closely related to M. japonica.

KEYWORDS: aquatic insects, MtDNA phylogeny, semiaquatic bugs, small water striders, taxonomy



Microvelia (Picaultia) pilosa Matsushima, Morii and Ohba, 2021


 
Ryosuke Matsushima, Takafumi Morii, Naoki Hiraishi and Shin-ya Ohba. 2021. A New Species of Small Water Strider in the Genus Microvelia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. Zoological Science. 38(6); (2021). DOI: 10.2108/zs210035

新種のアメンボを長崎大学の研究グループが共同で発見 ～国内での新種カタビロアメンボの発見は、1964年以来、57年ぶり～
 
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