Odara caribensis, Campos & Fernandes, 2022

Campos, Breno B. & Fernandes, José A. M., 2022, Odara, a new genus to Edessinae (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) with Eleven New Species, Insect Systematics & amp; Evolution 54 (3), pp. 1-38 : 15-16

Odara caribensis sp. n.

ZooBank: https://zoobank.org/1A73B802-C082-41CA-8095-ADC59EBDE589 ( Figs. 1 C; 2 C; 6 A – G; 15 C, 16)

Holotype male. VENEZUELA: Zulia: Kasmera rio Yasa Sierra de Perija 250m, 19-IX-1961 F. Fernandez, y C.J. Rosales [9°23’7.82”N, 72°59’35.14”W]( MPEG) .

Material examined. COSTA RICA: Heredia: 1♀ Finca Naranjo, Valenciana , 2km sur Pueblo Nuevo, Sarapiqui , 90m., 9 a 30 set 1992, M. Ortiz L-N 271800, 528750, CRI000 906221 ( INBio) ; 1♂ Est. El Ceibo , P.N. Braulio Carrillo. 400-600m, R. Aguiar, Mar 1990, L-N256500, 527700, CRI000 664335 ( INBio) ; Limon: 1♀ Sector Cerro Cocori, Fca de E.Rojas , 150m, E. Rojas. Agro 1991, L-N-286000, 567500, CRI000562162 ( INBio) ; PANAMA: Panamá: 1♂ 1♀ Barro Colorado I. Canal Zone Jan 30 1959 at light CNHM Panama Zool. Exped. (1959) H.S. Dybas leg. ( CNHM) ; idem 1♀ Ja 28 1959 ( CNHM); idem 1♀ I-29–59 ( CNHM) ; 1♀ C. Z. Cardenas Village May 17–18, 1980 E. Riley & LeDoux ( DRC) ; 1♂ Panamá Prov. Panamá City ( Ancon Hill ) II-2-1983 Doug Yanega ( RMNH) ; VENEZUELA: Zulia: 1♀ Cerco Morrocoy T.F.A. 2–4.58 ( MHNLS) ; 2♂ Sierra de Perija Cajmera 10-IV 1960 ( MHNLS) ; idem 1♂ 1♀ 12-IV 1960 ( MHNLS); idem 1♀ 13-IV 1960 ( MHNLS); idem 2♂ 14-IV 1960 ( MHNLS) ; 3♂ 1♀ Kasmera rio Yasa Sierra de Perija 250m, 19-IX-1961 F. Fernandez, y C.J. Rosales ( UCV) ; 1♂ Kasmera Perija 13-IV-63 col. PJ. Salinas col. M. Gelbea ( UCV) ; idem 1♀ 11-IV-63 ( UCV) .

Measurements. Antennomeres length: 1st: 0.5–0.6; 2nd: 1.0–1.2; 3rd: 1.7–2.1; 4th: 3.1–3.5; 5th: 3.7; head length: 1.8–2.1; head width: 2.4–2.8; pronotal length: 3.0– 4.0; pronotal width: 8.5–10.4; scutellum length: 6.5–8.0; scutellum width: 4.8–6.0; abdominal width: 7.6–9.2; total length: 13.3–16.2.

Etymology. Name given due to the localities where the specimens were collected that are close to the Caribbean Sea.

Diagnosis. Antennae light brown ( Fig. 1 C). Humeral angles well-developed, apex and posterolateral margin covered or not by a black spot with variable size ( Fig. 1 C). Corium with veins forming a Y connected with a big spot, but not reaching claval suture ( Fig. 1 C). Connexivum green with greenish yellow spots on medial region; excavations brown, darker than the rest ( Fig. 1 C). Ventral surface greenish yellow ( Fig. 2 C). Propleura with black lines around the base of procoxae ( Fig. 2 C). Male: parameres elongated, blade-shaped, inner margin rounded and outer margin straight, with a small distal curved keel ( Fig. 6 D, E); dorsal face of the proctiger separated from the posterior face by a big, triangular and dark brown carina ( Fig. 6 D, E). Female genital plates: valvifers VIII with lateral margins straight, and projected over the basis of laterotergites IX; mesial borders “V” shaped; medial excavation as wide as valvifers IX ( Fig. 6 F).

Description. Head. Apex of mandibular plates slightly darker than the rest. Apex of clypeus yellowish ( Fig. 1 C). Antennal segments formula: IV>V>III>II>I; segment V almost equal in length to the IV.

Thorax. Pronotum with shallow and concolorous punctation ( Fig. 1 C). Scutellum with shallow and concolorous punctation on anterior region, shallow and black punctation on posterior region ( Fig. 1 C). Corium lateral margins green ( Fig. 1 C). Membrane of hemelytra light brown ( Fig. 1 C). Ventral surface with shallow and black punctation ( Fig. 2 C). Metasternal process elevated anteriorly; anterior arms wide, with rounded apices, receiving only the last segment of the rostrum ( Fig. 6 C). Legs yellow ( Fig. 2 C).

Abdomen. Distal part of seventh abdominal segment with black spot covering ½ of the segment ( Fig. 1 C). Ventral surface with region between segments and pseudosutures darker than adjacent areas ( Fig. 2 C).

Male ( Fig. 6 A, B, D, E, G). Pygophore. Superior process of the genital cup black, flattened; anterior part elongated, posterior part large, rounded; visible in dorsal view ( Fig. 6 A, D, E). Proctiger deeply excavated on laterals, excavation with short setae; dorsal face delimited distally by a big, light brown and triangular carina; posterior face subtriangular and wrinkly ( Fig. 6 D, E). Ventral rim shallowly excavated, bottom straight, setose, and with a dark medial spot ( Fig. 6 B, D, E).

Female ( Figs. 6 F, 15 C). Valvifers VIII punctate and setose; margin of valvulae VIII visible ( Fig. 6 F). Valvifers IX flat ( Fig. 6 F). Laterotergites IX setose; in the same level of seventh segment ( Fig. 6 F).

Comments. Very similar to O. osaensis sp n. in general morphology ( Fig. 1 C, F). It can be differentiated from the latter mainly by the distribution, O. caribensis sp. n. have a wide distribution from Costa Rica to Venezuela, close to the Caribbean coast, while O. osaensis sp. n. is only known from Peninsula de Osa, located near the Pacific Ocean ( Fig. 16); the pygophore: the parameres of O. caribensis sp. n. are blade-shaped and the superior process of the genital cup is elongated, the genital cup and the parameres of O. osaensis sp. n. are bigger and triangular ( Figs. 6 D, E, 9 D, E); and the valvifers VIII: mesial borders are rounded in O. caribensis sp. n. and acute in O. osaensis sp. n. ( Figs. 6 F, 9 F).

Distribution ( Fig. 16). COSTA RICA: Heredia, Limon; PANAMÁ: Panamá; VENEZUELA: Zulia.