Mesovelia amoena Uhler 1894

Mesovelia amoena Uhler, 1894 Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano & T. Malacarne; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4DE7C545-7F04-57A7-B73C-5D6724A89D86; Taxon: genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: amoena; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Uhler, 1894; Location: stateProvince: Santa Catarina; municipality: Indaial; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Itajaí, Pesque Pague do Wili, Riacho pequeno; decimalLatitude: - 27.015; decimalLongitude: - 49.164; Identification: identificationID: Mesovelia amoena; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2017; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano & T. Malacarne; individualCount: 6; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: BEE63079-052E-5F0A-8DBC-0B9C6E95775B; Taxon: genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: amoena; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Uhler, 1894; Location: stateProvince: Santa Catarina; municipality: Blumenau; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Itajaí, Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes do Garcia, Lagoa Negra; decimalLatitude: - 27.0532; decimalLongitude: - 49.0878; Identification: identificationID: Mesovelia amoena; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2017; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano & T. Malacarne; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 97DB6BE0-83CA-5B80-88BA-0E45E65AAEC0; Taxon: genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: amoena; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Uhler, 1894; Location: stateProvince: Santa Catarina; municipality: Blumenau; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Itajaí, Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes do Garcia, Rio Garcia; decimalLatitude: - 27.0538; decimalLongitude: - 49.0863; Identification: identificationID: Mesovelia amoena; identifiedBy: I. R. S. Cordeiro; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2017; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5DD2D198-508A-55D1-BDAE-0CA24952D684; Taxon: genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: amoena; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Uhler, 1894; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Rio Mouro; decimalLatitude: - 23.8850; decimalLongitude: - 52.8072; Identification: identificationID: Mesovelia amoena; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 7; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 1F524C1F-32F7-5D0D-9AAC-AD0453C35704; Taxon: genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: amoena; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Uhler, 1894; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Tuneiras do Oeste; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Lagoa; decimalLatitude: - 23.8894; decimalLongitude: - 52.8144; Identification: identificationID: Mesovelia amoena; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano & T. Malacarne; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 91704A63-8143-59C0-94CB-477F5AAB8A98; Taxon: genus: Mesovelia; specificEpithet: amoena; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Uhler, 1894; Location: stateProvince: Santa Catarina; municipality: Blumenau; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Itajaí, riacho pequeno ao lado da estrada; Identification: identificationID: Mesovelia amoena; identifiedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2017; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Distribution Hawaiian Islands, Galápagos Islands, Canada, United States, Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, U. S. Virgin Islands, St. Eustatius, Martinique, Costa Rica, Panama, St. Vicent & the Grenadines, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil and Argentina. Notes First records from Santa Catarina (Fig. 7 C, Fig. 9 A-F). Previously reported from Paraná (Jaczewski 1928 b). Males of this species are extremely rare in the Neotropics. Diagnosis Apterous form. Body length 2.00 mm; male mesofemur without row of spinules on posterior margin; male abdominal sterna VII and VIII without spines or clusters of black spinules; male abdominal segment VIII without lateral tubercles, posterior margin rounded dorsally, concave ventrally; paramere with margins converging distally, apex not bifid.