Edessa meditabunda (Fabricius, 1794)

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
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scientific name	Edessa meditabunda (Fabricius, 1794)
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Distribution. Cuba, Colombia, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Distribution in Colombia. Unknown. This species was recorded from Colombia by Posada-Ochoa (1989), but without specific locality.

Remarks. Edessa meditabunda has the body mostly green contrasting with brown corium (including yellowish veins of corium), the hemelytra are narrow, the abdominal dorsolateral tergites are green, broadly visible, the apex of the scutellum is subacute, the mesosternum is distinctly carinate, and the osteolar sulcus is long, terminating in a very short ridge.

References. Barber & Bruner 1932; Posada-Ochoa 1989.