Edessa bryoviridis, Campos & Nunes & Bitar & Fernandes, 2020

Campos, Breno Batista, Nunes, Benedito Mendes, Bitar, Murilo Victor Silva & Fernandes, Jose Antonio Marin, 2020, Description of a new group of species of Edessa Fabricius, 1803 (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae) with translucent spot on hemelytra, Zootaxa 4810 (1), pp. 131-142 : 136-138

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.7

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4328779

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/720BB018-4021-43AB-A947-8B5BB82BA12A

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scientific name

Edessa bryoviridis
status

sp. nov.

Edessa bryoviridis sp. n.

( Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 A–D; 5E–F; 6)

Etymology. This name refers to the moss green color of the dorsal surface of the body. (From Latin. Bryum: moss; Viridis: green).

Holotype male. PANAMA. Chiriquí. Res. For. La Fortuna , Cont. Divide Tr., 7–20–1995, C.W & L.B O’Brien ( USNM).

Material examined. Paratypes: COSTA RICA. Puntarenas: 1♀ Est. Pittier , 1670M, 23–AGO–9–SET–1995, L_S_ 330900_577400 #5400, M. Morada, INBIO CRI002 250343 ( UFRGS) ; same data : 1♀ 23–AGO–13–SET–1995, #6153, E. Navarro, INBIO CRI002 309024 ( INBio) ; 1♀ Quebrada Quince, 1 Km O. Est. Progresso, Zona Protectora Las Tablas , 1350m, 20–JUL–1996, L_S_318600_593500, #7894, L. Ângulo, INBIO CRI002 447111 ( INBio) ; PANAMA. Chiriquí: 1♂ Dst. Renacimiento, Santa Clara 4000’, 4–VII–76, beating plants at night, Engleman ( DOE) ; same data : 1♀ 28–29–V– 76, Thurman ( DOE) .

Measurements. antennomeres length: 1st: 0.6–0.8; 2nd: 1.7–1.9; 3rd: 1.2–1.4; 4th: 2.7; 5th: 2.8; head length: 1.3–1.9; head width: 2.5–2.7; pronotal length: 2.5–3.0; pronotal width: 7.6–8.5; scutellum length: 5.1–6.2; scutellum width: 4.5–5.0; abdominal width: 7.4–8.3; total length: 14–15.3.

Diagnosis. Dorsal surface moss green with orange markings ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ); ventral surface greenish yellow to green ( Fig. 5F View FIGURE 5 ). Antennal segment I green with distal part black ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ); other segments black with basal ring green on segments III and IV; antennal segment II longer than III. Anterolateral margins of pronotum orange ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ). Corium green except for light brown lines parallel to claval sutures ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ); broad brown stripe found in other species of this group lacking in this species. Punctures of coria concolorous with surface, except for two rows of brown punctures parallel to claval sutures ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ). Pygophore with posterolateral angles projected, rounded and extremely tumid ( Fig. 3A,B View FIGURE 3 ). Gonocoxites 9 strongly compressed laterally ( Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3 ).

Description. Head. Apices of mandibular plates green.

Thorax. Orange spot on apex of each humeral angle ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ). Scutellum with apex punctate.Anterolateral margin of each corium concolorous, without dark spot ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ). Coria with shallow punctation. Veins of coria slightly lighter than background. Membrane of hemelytra dark brown ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ). Ventral surface with shallow, concolorous punctation ( Fig. 5F View FIGURE 5 ).

Abdomen. Distal margin of each seventh abdominal segment green, only spinose apex black ( Fig. 5E View FIGURE 5 ).

Male ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C). Dorsal rim of pygophore slightly projected, slightly darker than dorsal surface, ending in a suture separating it from each posterolateral angle ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ). Superior process of the genital cup small, slanting, tongue-like, yellow, with distal part posteriorly directed. Parameres each with anterior lobe tongue-like, almost reaching diaphragm; posterior lobe short, truncate distally, curved laterally, touching posterolateral angle ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ). Proctiger posterolaterally excavated, with longitudinal keel between dorsal surface and posterior face, dorsally delimited by brown developed keel; posterior face very small and triangular ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ). Ventral rim with a medial shallow excavation delimited by acuminated, slightly tumid, and well-developed expansions not reaching level of posterolateral angles in ventral view ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Ventral surface densely punctured, rugose medially.

Female ( Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3 ). Gonocoxites 8 slightly convex, outer lateral margins rounded, distally projected, reach- ing middle of laterotergites 9; mesial borders not projected posteriorly. Gonocoxites 9 with a small protuberance adjacent to mesial borders. Laterotergites 9 each with base shallowly concave; barely surpassing sclerite uniting laterotergites 8.

Comments. This species is more closely related to Edessa brunneofasciata sp. n. because of similar male genitalic characteristics such as: parameres large, forming two projections: one dorsally directed and the other curved laterally which fits between the tumescence of the inner surface of the lateral angles and the expansions of the ventral rim ( Figs. 3B View FIGURE 3 ; 4B View FIGURE 4 ); the ventral rim with a medial shallow excavation delimited by small rounded expansions ( Figs. 3C View FIGURE 3 ; 4C View FIGURE 4 ). This species can be differentiated from E. brunneofasciata sp. n. by its distinct mossy green and orange coloration, the length of the parameres that partially “embrace” the tumid adjacent posterolateral angle, the proctiger extremely excavated laterally, and by the small posterior face of the proctiger ( Figs. 3B View FIGURE 3 ; 4B View FIGURE 4 ).

Distribution ( Fig.6 View FIGURE 6 ). COSTA RICA: Puntarenas; PANAMA: Chiriquí.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

UFRGS

Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sul

INBio

National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Rica

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Edessa

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