Edessa (Edessa) decolorata, 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 : 27-29

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10167558

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scientific name

Edessa (Edessa) decolorata
status

sp. nov.

Edessa (Edessa) decolorata sp. n.

( Figs. 10 View FIGURE 10 , 57 A–B View FIGURE 57 , 73 View FIGURE 73 )

Etymology. The name refers to the absence of dark spots on the connexival segments (L. decolor, discolored, faded).

Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL, Rondônia: Fazenda Rancho Grande 62 km SW, 8–20-XI-1994, J. E. Eger & L. B. & C. W. O’Brien ( USNM).

Paratypes. BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: 1♀, Buena Vista, Hotel Flora e Fauna 5km 440m, 10–22-X-2004, J. E. Eger (17º29.925’ S 63º39.128’ W) ( JEE) GoogleMaps ; Cochabamba: 1♀, Chaparé 400m, 30-IX-1951, Dirings ( MZUSP) . PARAGUAY, San Pedro del Ycuamandiyú: 1♁, Liberacion , 3-I-1994, B. Garcete ( UNAN) ; Guairá and Caazapá : 1♁, Cordilheira do Ybytyruzú , I-1994, G. Arriagada ( JEE) . ARGENTINA, Missiones: 1♀, San Ignacio , IV-1956, F. H. Walz ( RMNH) ; 1♁, Loreto , XII-1956, F. H. Walz ( RMNH) .

Measurements (n= 7). Total length: 19.5–22.4; head length: 1.5–2.1; head width: 3.5–3.6; pronotum length: 4.3–5.0; pronotum width: 14.0–16.0; scutellum length: 8.3–10.1; scutellum width: 6.5–8.0; abdominal width: 11.2– 13.0; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 2.0; III: 1.8–3.0; IV: 4.0–4.2; V: 4.3–5.7.

Diagnosis. Large (19.5–22.4 mm). Dorsal body surface olive green ( Fig. 57 A View FIGURE 57 ). Ventral surface dark yellow to greenish yellow with transversal brown lines on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 ). Antennae reddish brown ( Fig. 57 A View FIGURE 57 ). Pronotum coarse, densely punctured, with brown punctures ( Fig. 57 A View FIGURE 57 ). Humeral angles short (1.25 times wider than long); apex with black spot restricted to the angles in dorsal view and restricted to the margin of the angles in ventral view; curved backwards ( Fig. 57 A–B View FIGURE 57 ). Scutellum with brown punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria ( Fig. 57 A View FIGURE 57 ). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 57 A View FIGURE 57 ). Connexival segments with black punctures, without spot and flat ( Fig. 57 A View FIGURE 57 ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 57 A View FIGURE 57 ). Ventral surface, thorax with brown lines; dark line of the propleura covering 1/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface; peritreme straight ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 10 G View FIGURE 10 ) with arms of anterior bifurcation straight and laterally well expanded, margin acuminated at apex; anterior bifurcation somewhat excavated receiving fourth rostral segment. Legs brown ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 ). Abdomen with spine of segment III acuminated ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 ). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow brown lines with well-defined margins, not reaching lateral margin ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 ). Pseudosutures concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 , dark lines are a deterioration of the exoskeleton). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete ( Fig. 57 B View FIGURE 57 ). Trichobothria both parallel to the spiracle. Posterolateral angles of segment VII not reaching the level of apices of laterotergites IX ( Fig. 10 F View FIGURE 10 ). Male genitalia, posterolateral angles of the pygophore developed, projected laterally ( Fig. 10 A, C View FIGURE 10 ). Superior processes of the genital cup tapering, thick, flattened and coarse in posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate carina ( Fig. 10 B, E View FIGURE 10 , crenulate carina barely visible). Parameres ( Fig. 10 D–E View FIGURE 10 ) with black margins; anterior lobe inconspicuous and rounded; dorsal lobe rounded and laterally curved; posterior lobe subrectangular and curved. Proctiger, posterior face triangular ( Fig. 10 D–E View FIGURE 10 ). Ventral rim in “V”; with lateral subdistal tuft of setae ( Fig. 10 C View FIGURE 10 ); with expansions undeveloped, but brown ( Fig. 10 C View FIGURE 10 ). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII with dark punctures, medial brown spot; sutural margins contiguous brown and not divergent; posterior margin brown and levelly arched, medially with a very shallow excavation. Valvifers IX not carinated. Laterotergites VIII with black band on outer lateral margins. Laterotergites IX with apices rounded exceeding the mediotergite VIII ( Fig. 10 F View FIGURE 10 ).

Comments. Edessa (E.) decolorata sp. n. resembles E. (E.) immaculata sp. n. and E. (E.) nigriclava Walker, 1868 (see Mendonça et al., 2023, Figs. 15 B–C View FIGURE 15 , 28 A–B View FIGURE 28 ) by the connexivum without spots and pygophore with the superior processes of the genital cup with crenulate carina. Edessa (E.) decolorata sp. n. differs from the other two by the dark line of the propleura covering 1/3 of the width of the sclerite (the dark line of the propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite in the other two); body ventrally with pseudosutures concolorous with the surrounding surface (pseudosutures black or brown in the other two) and ventral rim of the pygophore with lateral subdistal tuft of setae (without this tuft of setae in the other two).

Distribution ( Fig. 73 View FIGURE 73 ). BRAZIL: Rondônia; BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, Cochabamba; PARAGUAY: San Pedro del Ycuamandiyú, Guairá and Caazapá; ARGENTINA: Missiones.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

MZUSP

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

UNAN

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Edessa

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