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- A new species of water strider, called M. minsa sp. nov., has been identified from the Yaeyama Islands in Japan.
- This species is part of the subgenus Pacificovelia and was previously mistaken for another species, M. kyushuensis.
- Key distinguishing features include its longer and slimmer body shape, specific grayish markings on its abdomen, and a uniquely shaped male reproductive structure.
Article Abstract
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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