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They are the most successful group of organisms to occupy the air-water interface, are important models to study ecology and evolution, and can be relevant tools in biomonitoring. Veliidae is the second most speciose family of semiaquatic bugs, but its internal classification, including subfamilies and genera, is artificial and based on symplesiomorphies. One of these non-monophyletic entities is <jats:italic>Paravelia<\/jats:italic> Breddin, 1898, the largest genus in the subfamily Veliinae.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>In an effort to better classify the Veliinae, we describe <jats:italic>Foveavelia<\/jats:italic> to hold five South American species previously placed in <jats:italic>Paravelia<\/jats:italic>. The new genus is characterized by the following combination of features: unusual coarse cuticular punctures throughout the thorax and abdomen; a pair of small, frosty, pubescent areas formed by a very dense layer of short setae on the anterior lobe of the pronotum; fore tibial grasping comb present only in males; middle tibia with a row of elongate dark-brown trichobothria-like setae on the distal third, decreasing in size distally; macropterous specimens with the apical macula of the forewings elongate and constricted at mid-length, reaching the wing apex; and the male proctiger with a pair of anterodorsal projections. Besides the description, a key to the species of <jats:italic>Foveavelia<\/jats:italic> is provided, accompanied by illustrations and a species distribution map.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.7717\/peerj.16772","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,21]],"date-time":"2024-03-21T08:24:26Z","timestamp":1711009466000},"page":"e16772","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["<i>Foveavelia<\/i>, a new South American genus of Veliinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae)"],"prefix":"10.7717","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Higor D. D.","family":"Rodrigues","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6692-0323","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Felipe F. 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