Edessa (Edessa) limeirai, 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 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5372.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10167597
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scientific name	Edessa (Edessa) limeirai
status	sp. nov.

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Edessa (Edessa) limeirai sp. n.

( Figs. 29 View FIGURE 29 , 63 C–D View FIGURE 63 , 74 View FIGURE 74 )

Etymology. Named in honor of Dr. Francisco Limeira de Oliveira, who made important contributions to the knowledge of the entomological fauna of the state of Maranh„o, Brazil.

Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL, Maranhão: Bom Jardim , Reserva Bio. Gurupi, 01–05-I-2010, M. M. Abreu & F. A. S. Barbosa col. ( MPEG).

Paratypes. BRAZIL, Pará: 1♀, Paragominas , 23-II-2011, Jarilson ( UFPA) ; Maranhão: 3♀ 1♁, Bom Jardim, Reserva Bio. Gurupi , 02–11-IX-2010, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, J. C. Silva, J. A. Silva & M. M. Abreu ( UEMA) ; 1♀ 1♁, Bom Jardim, Reserva Bio. Gurupi , 17–27-I-2010, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M. B. Aguiar Neto & J. T. Câmara col. ( UFPA) ; 1♀, Bom Jardim, Reserva Bio. Gurupi , 17–27-I-2010, A. A. T. Sousa, J. O. A. Silva & M. B. Aguiar Neto col. ( UEMA) ; 1♀, Bom Jardim, Reserva Bio. Gurupi , 01–06-I-2010, M. M. Abreu, J. A. Silva, G. A. Reis & E. A. S. Barbosa col. ( UEMA) .

Measurements (n= 10). Total length: 20.3–23.8; head length: 1.9–2.2; head width: 3.2–4.0; pronotum length: 4.1–5.2; pronotum width: 13.8–16.0; scutellum length: 9.3–10.4; scutellum width: 7.1–7.8; abdominal width: 12.2– 13.2; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 2.0; III: 2.0–2.5; IV: 5.0; V: 5.5.

Diagnosis. Large (20.3–23.8 mm). Dorsal body surface olive green, densely punctured ( Fig. 63 C View FIGURE 63 ). Ventral surface dark yellow to brown with transversal black lines on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Head with concolorous with the surrounding surface to brown punctures. Antennae reddish brown ( Fig. 63 C–D View FIGURE 63 ). Pronotum with brown punctures ( Fig. 63 C View FIGURE 63 ); anterolateral margin and cicatrices with black punctures; anterolateral margin coarse ( Fig. 63 C View FIGURE 63 ). Humeral angles short (1.5 times wider than long); apex with dark brown spot restricted to the angles in dorsal view and restricted to the margin of the angles in ventral view; slightly bent backward ( Fig. 63 C–D View FIGURE 63 ). Scutellum with brown to black punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria ( Fig. 63 C View FIGURE 63 ). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 63 C View FIGURE 63 ). Connexival segments with concavities almost entirely covered by subrectangular two black spots separated by a large yellow median spot ( Fig. 63 C View FIGURE 63 ), spots extending ventrally, subrectangular ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black ( Fig. 63 C View FIGURE 63 ). Ventral surface, thorax with black lines; dark line of the propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Proepisternum coarse ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface, peritreme straight ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 29 G View FIGURE 29 ) with arms of anterior bifurcation straight and laterally barely expanded at apex; anterior bifurcation somewhat excavated receiving fourth rostral segment. Legs reddish brown ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Abdomen with spine of segment III acuminated ( Fig. 29 G View FIGURE 29 ). Intersegmental areas covered by very narrow black lines with smudged margins, reaching the lateral spots ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Pseudosutures light brown with well-defined margins ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete, restricted to the segment VII ( Fig. 63 D View FIGURE 63 ). Trichobothria both parallel to the spiracle. Posterolateral angles of segment VII not reaching the level of apices of laterotergites IX ( Fig. 29 F View FIGURE 29 ). Male genitalia, dorsal side of the pygophore with a suffused brown area occupying 1/3 of the surface; margin straight ( Fig. 29 A–B View FIGURE 29 ). Posterolateral angles of the pygophore developed, projected laterally, apices internally with spots black ( Fig. 29 A–B, D–E View FIGURE 29 ). Superior processes of the genital cup rectangular, thick, in flattened, coarse and slightly concave posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate high carina with a small dentiform projection ( Fig. 29 B, D–E View FIGURE 29 ). Parameres ( Fig. 29 D–E View FIGURE 29 ) with black margins; anterior lobe inconspicuous and rounded; dorsal lobe rounded, with curved apex; posterior lobe rectangular, with curved apex. Proctiger, posterior face subtriangular ( Fig. 29 D–E View FIGURE 29 ). Surface ventral densely punctured, with punctures distributed in “V”; presence of the dark spots medially and laterally. Ventral rim setose, with medial tuft ( Fig. 29 A–C View FIGURE 29 ); with expansions undeveloped and brown ( Fig. 29 C View FIGURE 29 ). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII with dark punctures, cordiform; sutural margins contiguous brown and not divergent; posterior margin brown and slightly arched. Laterotergites VIII with two dark spots on lateral margins and a small yellow spot in middle of the margins. Laterotergites IX with apices rounded at the same level as the mediotergite VIII ( Fig. 29 F View FIGURE 29 ).

Comments. See comments on E. (E.) crassicornis sp. n.. Edessa (E.) limeirai sp. n. resembles E. (E.) crassicornis sp. n., E. (E.) humeroglobosa sp. n., E. (E.) humerorotunda sp. n., and E. (E.) surinamensis sp. n. by the humeral angles spot restricted to the pronotum in dorsal view ( E. (E.) surinamensis sp. n. have humeral angles spot expanded over the pronotum in dorsal view). Edessa (E.) limeirai sp. n. and the other species have different distributions: E. (E.) limeirai sp. n. in Brazil (Pará and Maranh„o), E. (E.) crassicornis sp. n. in Costa Rica, E. (E.) humeroglobosa sp. n. in Brazil (Mato Grosso), E. (E.) humerorotunda sp. n. Brazil (Amazonas), and E. (E.) surinamensis sp. n. in Suriname.