Platyvelia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Gerromorpha
Superfamilia: Gerroidea

Familia: Veliidae
Subfamilia: Veliinae
Genus: Platyvelia
Species (9): P. alvaradana – P. annulipes – P. beameri – P. brachialis – P. egregia – P. maritima – P. summersi – P. verana – P. verdica
Name

Platyvelia Polhemus & Polhemus, 1993: 391

Original status: valid genus
Type-species: Velia brachialis Stål, 1860
Fixation: original designation

References

Polhemus, J.T. & Polhemus, D.A. 1993: Two new genera for New World Veliinae (Heteroptera: Veliidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 101(3): 391–398. JSTOR Reference page. [See p. 391]

Platyvelia is a genus of smaller water striders in the family Veliidae. There are about nine described species in Platyvelia.[1][2][3]
Species

These nine species belong to the genus Platyvelia:

Platyvelia alvaradana (Drake & Hottes, 1952)
Platyvelia annulipes (Champion, 1898)
Platyvelia beameri (Hungerford, 1929)
Platyvelia brachialis (Stål, 1860)
Platyvelia egregia (Drake & Harris, 1935)
Platyvelia maritima (J. Polhemus & Manzano, 1992)
Platyvelia summersi (Drake, 1951)
Platyvelia verana (Drake & Hottes, 1952)
Platyvelia verdica (Drake, 1951)

References

"Platyvelia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
"Platyvelia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

"Platyvelia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading

Polhemus, John T.; Polhemus, Dan A. (1993). "Two new genera for New World Veliinae (Heteroptera: Veliidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 101 (3): 391–398. JSTOR 25010019.
Moreira, F. F. F.; Nessimian, J. L.; Rúdio, J. A.; Salles, F. F. (2010). "New species and new records of Veliidae from Espírito Santo State and adjacent Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with notes on nomenclature (Insecta: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha)". Journal of Natural History. 44 (45–46): 2761–2801. doi:10.1080/00222933.2010.512423.
Epler, J. H. (2006). Identification manual for the aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera of Florida (PDF). Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.