First report of the genus Thirumalaia Zettel &amp;amp; Laciny, 2021 (Hemiptera: Veliidae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species

Matsushima, Ryosuke

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5138.3.7

Zootaxa

2022

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.3.7

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First report of the genus Thirumalaia Zettel & Laciny, 2021 (Hemiptera: Veliidae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species

Ryosuke Matsushima¹

Abstract: The genus Thirumalaia Zettel & Laciny, 2021 (Veliidae: Microveliinae) was recently established with one Indian species. Here, a new species, T. kaara sp. nov., from Ishigaki-jima Island and Iriomote-jima Island, Ryukyu, Japan is described. Additionally, the distribution of the genus is updated and laboratory rearing information of the immature stages of T. kaara sp. nov. are provided.

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A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus <em>Microvelia</em> Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

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2023

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Microvelia (Picaultia) yoshitomii sp. nov., currently considered endemic to Haha-jima Island, Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan, is described. This new taxon was previously thought to be M. (P.) douglasi Scott, 1874, but has distinctly different morphological characteristics, including (1) proportional lengths of hind tarsomere II/I in both sexes approximately 1.1; (2) apex of male fore and middle tibiae strongly projected; (3) right paramere apically rounded and not markedly narrowed in lateral view, with ventral margin almost straight in lateral view.

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A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus <em>Microvelia</em> Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

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A new species of the small water strider genus Microvelia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ryukyus, Japan, with notes on the distribution of M. kyushuensis

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2024

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A new species of the small water strider genus Microvelia Westwood, 1834, M. minsa sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae), is described from the Yaeyama Islands of the Ryukyus, Japan. It belongs to the subgenus Pacificovelia Andersen & Weir, 2003. This new species has long been confused with M. kyushuensis Esaki & Miyamoto, 1955, in Japan, but is distinguished from the latter by a larger and more slender body approximately 2.5 times as long as its maximum width, a pair of square gray to grayish-blue markings on abdominal mediotergites II, III, and V, and the male right paramere evenly curved with the apical half twisted.

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First report of the genus Thirumalaia Zettel & Laciny, 2021 (Hemiptera: Veliidae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species

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A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus <em>Microvelia</em> Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus <em>Microvelia</em> Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

A new species of the small water strider genus Microvelia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ryukyus, Japan, with notes on the distribution of M. kyushuensis

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First report of the genus Thirumalaia Zettel &amp; Laciny, 2021 (Hemiptera: Veliidae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species

Cited by 2 publications

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A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus &lt;em&gt;Microvelia&lt;/em&gt; Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus &lt;em&gt;Microvelia&lt;/em&gt; Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

A new species of the small water strider genus Microvelia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ryukyus, Japan, with notes on the distribution of M. kyushuensis

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First report of the genus Thirumalaia Zettel & Laciny, 2021 (Hemiptera: Veliidae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species

A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus <em>Microvelia</em> Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

A new species of the broad-shouldered water strider genus <em>Microvelia</em> Westwood (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan