Edessa (E.) schirmeri Breddin, 1904

Mendonça, Maria Thayane Da Silva, Silva, Valéria Juliete Da & Fernandes, José Antônio Marin, 2023, Diagnose of the nominal subgenus of Edessa and description of the E. sexdens group (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Edessinae), Zootaxa 5240 (1), pp. 1-63 : 44-46

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( Figs. 19 View FIGURE 19 , 30 A View FIGURE 30 )

Edessa schirmeri Breddin 1904: 136 ; Gaedike, 1971: 99; Kirkaldy, 1909: 164.

Edessa schirmeri . Lectotype female. VENEZUELA, Amazonas: Esmeralda , Edessa schirmeri n. spec ., Syntypus, Paratypus, Dtsch. Entomol. Institut Berlin, coll. Breddin, DEI Hemimetabola #100295 ( SDEI). Examined by photos ( Fig. 19 D View FIGURE 19 ) .

Diagnosis. Dorsal surface of the body olive green ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ). Ventral surface brown with transversal black lines on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Antennae brown ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ). Pronotum with punctures brown ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ). Humeral angles short (1,2 times wider than long) ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ), apices black ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ); humeral angle spot restricted to the angle in dorsal and ventral views ( Fig. 19 A,B View FIGURE 19 ). Scutellum with punctures brown ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ); apex not reach the end of corium ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ). Corium with all veins concolorous with surface ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ); connexival segments with concavities slightly covered by small elliptical black spots separated by a yellow median spot ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ); spots not extending ventrally ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Ventral surface. Thorax with black stripes ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ); dark stripe of the propleuron covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Proepisternum with dark stripe ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Evaporatorium concolorous with thorax ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ) with anterior apex straight and laterally well expanded, margin acuminated; anterior face somewhat excavated; anterior bifurcation receiving fourth rostral segment. Legs brown ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Abdomen with spine of third segment acuminated ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Intersegmental areas black, not reaching lateral margin ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Pseudosutures solid black, wide, margin well-defined ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete ( Fig. 19 B View FIGURE 19 ). Trichobotria parallel to the spiracle. Posterolateral angles of segment VII not reaching level of the apices of laterotergites IX in females ( Fig. 19 C View FIGURE 19 ). Female genitalia, laterotergites VIII with dark band on outer lateral margins ( Fig. 19 C View FIGURE 19 ).

Male genitalia: Unknown.

Female genitalia: Valvifers VIII with dark punctures; inner margins contiguous and brown; distal margin brown and sinuous. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate passing the sclerite uniting laterotergites VIII ( Fig. 19 C View FIGURE 19 ).

Comments. This species resembles Edessa (E.) electa and E. (E.) nigroangulata but can be separated from them by the more curved backward humeral angle ( Figs. 19 A View FIGURE 19 , 25 C View FIGURE 25 , 28 E View FIGURE 28 ), spots on the connexival segments small and elliptical ( Fig. 19 A View FIGURE 19 ), and laterotergites VIII without spots ( Fig. 19 C View FIGURE 19 ). The specimen was examined by photos. The photos were taken by Arne K̂ler (SDEI).