Edessa (Edessa) rufofusca, 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 : 87

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5372.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10167623

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scientific name

Edessa (Edessa) rufofusca
status

sp. nov.

Edessa (Edessa) rufofusca sp. n.

( Figs. 42 View FIGURE 42 , 67 E–F View FIGURE 67 , 72 View FIGURE 72 )

Etymology. The name refers to the color of the antennae (L. rufus, reddish; L. fuscus, dark).

Material examined. Holotype female. BRAZIL, Pará : Marituba, 23-VI-1961, J. & B. Bechyné ( MPEG).

Measurements (n= 1). Total length: 18.2; head length: 2.2; head width: 3.3; pronotum length: 3.4; pronotum width: 13.0; scutellum length: 8.4; scutellum width: 6.4; abdominal width: 10.3; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 1.6; III: 2.0; IV: 4.0.

Diagnosis. Large (18.2 mm). Dorsal body surface green ( Fig. 67 E View FIGURE 67 ). Ventral surface dark yellow to green with transversal green bands on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Antennae with first brown segment and second to fifth dark brown segment ( Fig. 67 E–F View FIGURE 67 ). Pronotum with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures ( Fig. 67 E View FIGURE 67 ); anterolateral margin with a yellow band extending from the humeral angles to the head. Humeral angles short (1.2 times wider than long); apex with brown spot restricted to the angles in dorsal view; slightly curved backward ( Fig. 67 E–F View FIGURE 67 ). Scutellum with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria ( Fig. 67 E View FIGURE 67 ). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 67 E View FIGURE 67 ). Connexival segments with concavities entirely covered by rectangular green spot separated by a large yellow median spot ( Fig. 67 E View FIGURE 67 ), spots extending ventrally and forming green bands on the abdomen ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices green ( Fig. 67 E View FIGURE 67 ). Ventral surface, thorax with green bands; band of the propleura connected to the dark spot of the humeral angles ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface; peritreme straight ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 42 B View FIGURE 42 ) with arms of anterior bifurcation rounded and laterally barely expanded at apex; anterior bifurcation somewhat excavated receiving fourth rostral segment. Legs reddish brown ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Abdomen with spine of segment III acuminated ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow brown bands with adjacent smudged green band, reaching the lateral spots ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Pseudosutures concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete ( Fig. 67 F View FIGURE 67 ). Trichobothria both parallel to the spiracle. Posterolateral angles of segment VII exceeding the level of apices of laterotergites IX, almost reaching the level of apices of laterotergites VIII ( Fig. 42 A View FIGURE 42 ). Male genitalia. Unknown. Female genitalia, valvifers VIII subrectangular, with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures; medially near the sutural margin with a brown spot, contiguous and not divergent; posterior margin forming a U-shaped excavation. Laterotergites VIII with two dark spots on the lateral margins. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate, slightly projected laterally, passing the mediotergite VIII ( Fig. 42 A View FIGURE 42 ).

Comments. See comments on E. (E.) chloroicterica sp. n..

Distribution ( Fig. 72 View FIGURE 72 ). BRAZIL: Pará.

MPEG

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Edessa

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