Edessa (Edessa) reuteri sp. nov.

(Figs. 41, 67 C–D, 72)

Etymology. Name after the Finnish entomologist Odo Morannal Reuter (1850–1913).

Material examined. Holotype male. PANAMA, Colón: Cristóbal, U. Z., 10-II-1930, T. O. Zsehokke collector (CAS).

Paratypes. PANAMA, Colón: 1♀, Canal zone, Pipeline rd, 22-IX-1974, R. B. Jahnsen (DOE) ; 1♀, Canal zone, Barro Colorado, Zool Exped, 14-I-1959, H. S. Dybas leg. (CMNH) ; 1♁, Gatún Cz, 20-VIII-1923, R. C. Shannon (USNM) ; Pearl Islands: 1♁, San Jose, Pearl IS, 28-IV-1944, J. P. E. Morison (USNM) ; 1♁, San Jose, Pearl IS, 27- V-1944, J. P. E. Morison (UFPA) ; 1♀, San Jose, Pearl IS, 9-IV-1944, J. P. E. Morison (USNM) .

Measurements (n= 7). Total length: 16.6–20.6; head length: 1.4–1.9; head width: 3.0–3.4; pronotum length: 3.3–4.0; pronotum width: 12.1–15.7; scutellum length: 7.6–9.4; scutellum width: 6.2–7.2; abdominal width: 9.7– 11.3; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 1.6–1.8; III: 2.00; IV: 4.2–4.3; V: 3.0–4.0.

Diagnosis. Large (16.6–20.6 mm). Dorsal body surface green, densely punctured (Fig. 67 C). Ventral surface dark yellow to green with transversal black bands on thorax and abdomen (Fig. 67 D). Head with black to concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures. Antennae yellow (Fig. 67 C–D). Pronotum with black to brown punctures (Fig. 67 C); anterolateral margin and cicatrices with black punctures. Humeral angles short (1.25 times wider than long), directed laterally; apex with black spot restricted to the angles in dorsal view, light brown in ventral view; gently curved backward (Fig. 67 C–D). Scutellum with brown to black punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria (Fig. 67 C). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface (Fig. 67 C). Connexival segments with concavities almost entirely covered by subrectangular black spots separated by a large yellow median spot (Fig. 67 C), spots extending ventrally, subrectangular (Fig. 67 D). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black (Fig. 67 C). Ventral surface, thorax with black bands; dark band of the propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite (Fig. 67 D). Proepisternum densely punctured (Fig. 67 D). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface (Fig. 67 D). Metasternal process (Fig. 41 G) with arms of anterior bifurcation straight and laterally well expanded at apex; anterior bifurcation somewhat excavated receiving fourth rostral segment. Legs with tibiae and tarsi reddish, remaining yellow (Fig. 67 D). Abdomen with spine of segment III rounded (Figs. 41 G; 67 D). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow black bands with well-defined margins, not reaching the lateral spots (Fig. 67 D). Pseudosutures black with well-defined margins (Fig. 67 D). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete (Fig. 67 D). Trichobothria one in line with spiracle and the other laterad. Posterolateral angles of segment VII not reaching the level of apices of laterotergites IX (Fig. 41 F). Male genitalia, dorsal side of the pygophore with a suffused brown area occupying 2/3 of the surface (Fig. 41 A–B). Posterolateral angles of the pygophore developed, well projected laterally, apices internally with spots black (Fig. 41 A–B, E). Superior processes of the genital cup thick, rectangular; flattened and coarse posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate high carina, ending in a small dentiform projection (Fig. 41 B, E, crenulate carina and dentiform projection barely visible). Diaphragm setulose (Fig. 41 D–E). Parameres (Fig. 41 D–E) with brown margin; anterior lobe rounded; dorsal lobe subtriangular, curved apex; posterior lobe subrectangular. Proctiger, posterior face subtriangular (Fig. 41 D–E). Surface ventral with dark spots laterally and medially (Fig. 41 C). Ventral rim not setose (Fig. 41 C); with expansions little developed, rounded, concolorous with the surrounding surface; the expansions not exceeding the apices of posterolateral angles (Fig. 41 C). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII with dark punctures and a small dentiform projection on the valvifers IX; sutural margins contiguous, with brown band and divergent; posterior margin forming a V-shaped excavation, with a brown band and arched. Valvifers IX not carinated. Laterotergites VIII with two dark spots on lateral and a small yellow spot in middle of the margins. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate passing the mediotergite VIII (Fig. 41 F).

Comments. See comments on E. (E.) fabricii sp. n. and E. (E.) flavoantennata sp. n. . Edessa (E.) reuteri sp. n. differs from the other species by the abdomen with ventral intersegmental bands black, not reaching the lateral spots (the other species with black intersegmental bands, reaching the lateral spots); pygophore with the superior processes of the genital cup with carina with dentiform projection (the other species without dentiform projection); and valvifers VIII with dentiform projection (the other species without dentiform projection).

Distribution (Fig. 72). PANAMA: Colón, Pearl Islands.