Edessa (Edessa) accola, 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 : 10-12

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10167534
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scientific name	Edessa (Edessa) accola
status	sp. nov.

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Edessa (Edessa) accola sp. n.

( Figures 1 View FIGURE 1 , 54 A–B View FIGURE 54 , 72 View FIGURE 72 )

Etymology. This name refers to the similarity with E. (E.) fallenii Stål, 1872 (L. accola , neighbor).

Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro ( CMNH).

Measurements (n= 1). Total length: 16.4; head length: 1.4; head width: 3.2; pronotum length: 3.8; pronotum width: 11.3; scutellum length: 8.2; scutellum width: 6.6; abdominal width: 10.1; length antennomeres: I: 0.9; II: 1.3; III: 1.6; IV: 3.5; V: 4.0.

Diagnosis. Large (16.4 mm). Dorsal body surface green ( Fig. 54 A View FIGURE 54 ). Ventral surface dark reddish brown with transversal smudged reddish band on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 54 B View FIGURE 54 ). Antennae brown ( Fig. 54A–B View FIGURE 54 ). Pronotum with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures ( Fig. 54 A View FIGURE 54 ). Humeral angles short (1.6 times wider than long); apex with light brown spot restricted to the angles in dorsal view, ventrally without spot; slightly bent posteriorly ( Fig. 54 A–B View FIGURE 54 ). Scutellum with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures; apex not reaching the end of the coria ( Fig. 54 A View FIGURE 54 ). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 54 A View FIGURE 54 ). Connexival segments without spot, with a pair of concavities ( Fig. 54 A View FIGURE 54 ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 54 A View FIGURE 54 ). Ventral surface, thorax with dark band of propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 54 B View FIGURE 54 ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface; peritreme straight ( Fig. 54 B View FIGURE 54 ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 1 F View FIGURE 1 ) with arms of anterior bifurcation straight and well expanded laterally at apex; anterior bifurcation broadly excavated receiving the fourth and a small part of the third rostral segment. Legs with tibiae and tarsi darker than the other articles ( Fig. 54 B View FIGURE 54 ). Abdomen with spine of segment III rounded ( Fig. 1 F View FIGURE 1 ). Intersegmental areas covered by wide smoky reddish band with smudged margins, reaching the lateral margin ( Fig. 54 B View FIGURE 54 ). Pseudosutures smoky brown with irregular margins ( Fig. 54 B View FIGURE 54 ). Median longitudinal brown band almost complete and suffused ( Fig. 54 B View FIGURE 54 ). Trichobothria one in line with spiracle and the other laterad. Male genitalia, dorsal side of the pygophore with suffused brown area occupying more than 1/3 of the surface ( Fig. 1 A–B View FIGURE 1 ). Posterolateral angles of pygophore slightly developed ( Fig. 1 A View FIGURE 1 ). Superior processes of the genital cup rectangular, narrow, grooved in posterior view, not continuing ventrally in a carina ( Fig. 1 B, D–E View FIGURE 1 ). Parameres ( Fig. 1 D–E View FIGURE 1 ) concolorous with the surrounding surface; anterior lobe subtriangular and somewhat developed; dorsal lobe rounded, developed and curved; posterior lobe subtriangular and developed. Proctiger, posterior face subelliptical ( Fig. 1 D–E View FIGURE 1 ). Ventral rim setose, with medial tuft ( Fig. 1 C View FIGURE 1 ); with expansions little developed, rounded, concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 1 C View FIGURE 1 ). Female genitalia. Unknown.

Comments. Edessa (E.) accola sp. n. resembles E. (E.) fallenii Stål, 1872 (see Mendonça et al., 2023, Figs. 6A–G View FIGURE 6 , 25 E–F View FIGURE 25 ) as it has the humeral angles light brown or concolorous with the pronotal surface; segments of the connexivum without spots and pygophore with the posterior face of the proctiger elliptical. On the other hand, both species can be easily separated: E. (E.) accola sp. n. has the connexivum with concavities on each segment (connexivum without concavities in E. (E.) fallenii ); abdomen ventrally with intersegmental areas smoky reddish and pseudosutures smoky brown (intersegmental areas and pseudosutures black in E. (E.) fallenii ) and pygophore with the superior processes of the genital cup without carina (superior processes of the genital cup carinated in E. (E.) fallenii ).

Distribution ( Fig. 72 View FIGURE 72 ). BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro.