Edessa (Edessa) amaurata, Mendonça & Silva & Fernandes, 2023

Mendonça, Maria Thayane Da Silva, Silva, Valéria Juliete Da & Fernandes, José Antônio Marin, 2023, Description of fifty-one new species and new taxonomic arrangement for the E. sexdens group of the subgenus Edessa (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Edessinae, Edessa), Zootaxa 5372 (1), pp. 1-128 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5372.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10167538
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scientific name	Edessa (Edessa) amaurata
status	sp. nov.

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Edessa (Edessa) amaurata sp. n.

( Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 , 54 E–F View FIGURE 54 , 72 View FIGURE 72 )

Etymology. The name refers to the dark coloration of the body in dorsal view (Gr. amauros, dark).

Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL, Maranhão: Bom Jardim , Res. Bio. Gurupi, 05–15-VI-2010, J. C. Silva, A. A. Santos, T. T. A. Silva & J. A. Silva col. ( MPEG).

Paratypes. BRAZIL, Pará: 1♀, Carajás, 2016, B. T. S. Santos ( UFPA) ; Maranhão: 1♀, Bom Jardim, Res. Bio. Gurupi, 05–15-VI-2010, J. C. Silva, A. A. Santos, T. T. A. Silva & J. A. Silva col. ( UEMA) .

Measurements (n= 3). Total length: 20.8–21.9; head length: 1.7–1.9; head width: 3.4; pronotum length: 4.2– 4.3; pronotum width: 14.4–15.0; scutellum length: 9.7–10.4; scutellum width: 7.1–7.5; abdominal width: 12.0–12.5; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 2.3–2.4; III: 2.0–3.0; IV: 4.7–5.7; V: 5.2.

Diagnosis. Large (20.8–21.9 mm). Dorsal body surface dark green (54 E). Ventral surface dark yellow to brown with transversal black bands on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Mandibular plates with black punctures along the anterior margin ( Fig. 54 E View FIGURE 54 ). Antennae reddish brown ( Fig. 54 E–F View FIGURE 54 ). Pronotum with black punctures ( Fig. 54 E View FIGURE 54 ); anterior and anterolateral margins with black punctures. Humeral angles short (1.4 times wider than long); apex with black spot expanding over the pronotal disc in dorsal view and restricted to the angles in ventral view; bent backward ( Fig. 54 E–F View FIGURE 54 ). Scutellum with black punctures ( Fig. 54 E View FIGURE 54 ); apex acute, excavated medially, not reaching the apex of coria ( Fig. 54 E View FIGURE 54 ). Coria with all veins yellowish green ( Fig. 54 E View FIGURE 54 ). Connexival segments black with three very small dark yellow calloused areas ( Fig. 54 E View FIGURE 54 ); black spot barely extending ventrally ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with black apices ( Fig. 54 E View FIGURE 54 ). Ventral surface, thorax with black bands; dark band of propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Proepisternum with dark band ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface; peritreme straight ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 3 G View FIGURE 3 ) with anterior arms of anterior bifurcation straight and well expanded laterally at apex; anterior bifurcation slightly excavated receiving the fourth rostral segment. Legs brown ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Abdomen with spine of segment III acuminated ( Figs. 3 G View FIGURE 3 ; 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow solid black bands with well-defined margins, not reaching the lateral spots ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Pseudosutures concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 , dark lines are a deterioration of the exoskeleton). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete ( Fig. 54 F View FIGURE 54 ). Trichobothria both in line with spiracles. Posterolateral angles of segment VII slightly exceeding the level of the apices of laterotergites IX ( Fig. 3 F View FIGURE 3 , consider the angles to the left of the observer). Male genitalia, dorsal side of the pygophore with a medial smudged brown spot occupying 1/3 of the surface ( Fig. 3 A–B View FIGURE 3 ). Posterolateral angles of the pygophore developed, projected laterally ( Fig. 3 A–B View FIGURE 3 ); apices with black spot ( Fig. 3 A–B View FIGURE 3 ). Superior processes of the genital cup thick, tapering, flattened distally and coarse in posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate high carina, ending in a developed digitiform projection ( Fig. 3 B, D–E View FIGURE 3 ). Parameres with black margin, fan-like; posterior lobe somewhat more developed than anterior lobe, dorsal lobe not curved laterally ( Fig. 3 D–E View FIGURE 3 ); anterior face with carina. Proctiger, posterior face subtriangular ( Fig. 3 D–E View FIGURE 3 ). Ventral rim setose, with medial tuft ( Fig. 3 C View FIGURE 3 ), with expansions little developed, rounded and concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 3 C–E View FIGURE 3 ). Ventral surface with black punctures, distributed in deep “V”; medially with longitudinal black spot ( Fig. 3 C View FIGURE 3 ). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII with some median brown punctures, posterior margin straight and laterally angles; sutural margins contiguous, brown and slightly excavated distally in a small and shallow U-shaped concavity. Valvifers IX large, not carinated. Laterotergites VIII with dark outer lateral margins. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate exceeding the mediotergite VIII ( Figs. 3 F View FIGURE 3 , 4 F View FIGURE 4 ).