Rhagovelia ochroischion Nieser & Melo, 1997 Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: C. F. B. Floriano; individualCount: 5; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: EDEA14F9-0D26-5232-8A4C-22561F2A6E3F; Taxon: genus: Rhagovelia; specificEpithet: ochroischion; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Nieser & Melo, 1997; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Cianorte; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Córrego Adelaide; decimalLatitude: - 23.8472; decimalLongitude: - 52.7389; Identification: identificationID: Rhagovelia ochroischion; identifiedBy: N. O. Paiva; 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: 12; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3F8C20F5-90FA-5960-B3A4-7C57CB5F26AD; Taxon: genus: Rhagovelia; specificEpithet: ochroischion; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Nieser & Melo, 1997; Location: stateProvince: Paraná; municipality: Cianorte; locality: Reserva Biológica das Perobas, Córrego Adelaide; decimalLatitude: - 23.8472; decimalLongitude: - 52.7389; Identification: identificationID: Rhagovelia ochroischion; identifiedBy: N. O. Paiva; Event: samplingProtocol: " D " Net; year: 2024; month: IV; Record Level: institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Distribution Brazil. Notes Specimens from Paraná show variations in structure and colouration when compared to the original description. In the material above, the apical portion of the middle femur and most of the fore femur dorsally are yellowish. Additionally, both males and females bear a row of five to seven spines on the hind femur. These are the first records from Paraná and the South Region of Brazil (Fig. 10 D-E, Fig. 11 C).

Published as part of Floriano, Carla FB, Paiva, Nathália de Oliveira, Cordeiro, Isabelle da Rocha Silva, Franco, Cleilton Lima, Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão dos Santos & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2026, New records of semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Gerromorpha) from the South Region of Brazil, pp. e 163787 in Biodiversity Data Journal 14 on page e163787, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e163787