Genus Rhagovelia Mayr, 1865
- Rhagovelia Mayr, G. 1865. Diagnosen neuer Hemipteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 429-446 [445].
Type species:
Velia nigricans Burmeister, 1835 by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. Notes on the Division Veliiaria [Rhynchota]. (=Subfam. Velidae, Leth. & Sev.). The Entomologist 34(461): 285-286 [286]. - Baecula Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 1 iv 256 pp. [167] [junior homonym of Baecula Walker, 1856 (Lepidoptera)].
- Neovelia White, F.B. 1879. Descriptions of new Hemiptera. (I). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 14: 482-489 [487].
Type species:
Neovelia trailii White, 1879 by monotypy. - Kotovelia Matsumura, S. 1913. Thousand Insects of Japan Additamenta. 1. Tokyo : Publisher unknown Vol. 1 184 pp. [In Japanese] [98].
Type species:
Kotovelia kawakamii Matsumara, 1913 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. Notes on the Division Veliiaria [Rhynchota]. (=Subfam. Velidae, Leth. & Sev.). The Entomologist 34(461): 285-286 [286] (synonymy of Neovelia)
- Andersen, N.M. 1982. The Semiaquatic Bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Phylogeny, adaptations, biogeography and classification. Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press Entomonograph Vol. 3 455 pp. [411] (synonymy of Baecula and Kotovelia, subgeneric arrangement not followed in this work)
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IBRA
Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution References
- Gould, G.E. 1931. The Rhagovelia of the Western Hemisphere, with notes on world distribution (Hemiptera, Veliidae). Bulletin of the University of Kansas, Science 32: 5-61 [7]
- Lundblad, O. 1933. Zur Kenntnis der aquatilen und semiaquatilen Hemipteren von Sumatra, Java und Bali auf Grund des Materials der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition, nebst Revision einiger anderer, indoaustralischer Arten. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 12: 1-195, 263-489 [286]
General References
Brooks, A.R. & Kelton, L.A. 1967. Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Hemiptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 51: 1-92 [49] (key, description)
Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [171] (description, Oriental Region)
Froeschner, R.C. 1981. Heteroptera or true bugs of Ecuador: a partial catalog. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1981(322): iv 1-147 [101] (Ecuador)
Lansbury, I. 1993. Rhagovelia of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia (Hemiptera: Veliidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 136: 23-54 [26-28] (description)
Matsuda, R. 1956. A supplementary taxonomic study of the genus Rhagovelia (Hemiptera, Veliidae) of the Western Hemisphere. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 38: 915-1017 (Western Hemisphere)
Polhemus, D.A. & Polhemus, J.T. 1988. Zoogeography of the genus Rhagovelia in the Malay archipelago (Heteroptera: Veliidae). Proc. XVIII Int. Cong. Entomol. (Vancouver). p. 23 [23] (distribution)
Polhemus, J.T. & Chapman, H.C. 1979. Family Veliidae/small water striders, water crickets, riffle bugs. pp. 49-57 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press. [55] (synonymy description)
Smith, C.L. 1988. Family Veliidae Amyot and Serville, 1843. The small water striders. pp. 734-742 in Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (eds). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden : E.J. Brill xix 958 pp. [739] (Nearctic Region)
Smith, C.L. & Polhemus, J.T. 1978. The Veliidae of the United States, keys and checklists. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80(1): 56-68 [60] (list)
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