Microvelia (Microvelia) pulchella Westwood, 1834 Geographical distribution: Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, U. S. Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Martin, Saba, St. Kitts & Nevis, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Aruba, Colombia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Barbados, Curaçao, Klein Curaçao, Bonaire, Klein Bonaire, Grenada, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina. Distribution in Brazil: all regions (AM, PE [Fernando de Noronha], MG, MS, ES, RJ, SC) (Drake & Plaumann 1953, 1955; Nieser & Melo 1997; Melo & Nieser 2004; Pelli et al. 2006; Souza et al. 2006; Pereira & Melo 2007; Ribeiro et al. 2010). Comments: This species was recorded from “Rio Caraguatá, Matto Grosso” [MT] by Drake and Plaumann (1953), but the area now belongs to MS.

Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851