Platyvelia

Platyvelia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Veliidae
Genus:	Platyvelia J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus, 1993

Platyvelia is a genus of smaller water striders in the family Veliidae. There are about nine described species in Platyvelia.

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)

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.