Edessa (Edessa) flavofemorata, 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 : 39-41

Edessa (Edessa) flavofemorata sp. n.

( Figs. 16 , 59 A–B , 73 )

Etymology. The name refers to the yellow femora of the hindlegs (L. flavus, yellow; L. femur, thigh).

Material examined. Holotype female. FRENCH GUIANA, Piste de Kaw pm 37, 23-XII-1984, S. boucher rec MNHN ( EH) 25714 ( MNHN).

Paratypes. FRENCH GUIANA, 1♀, Saint Jean du Maroni, Saint Laurent du Maroni, 8–24-I-1980, P. thiaucort, J. Boudinot & h. de toulgoet ( UFPA) ; 2♀, Saint Jean du Maroni, Saint Laurent du Maroni, I-1980, P. thiaucort, J. Boudinot & h. de toulgoet MNHN ( EH) 25715 ( MNHN); 1♀, Piste de Kaw pm 37, 23-XII-1984, S. boucher rec, MNHN ( EH) 25716 ( MNHN).

Measurements (n= 5). Total length: 16.6–18.5; head length: 1.7–2.1; head width: 2.9–3.4; pronotum length: 3.3–4.1; pronotum width: 11.0–12.9; scutellum length: 8.2–8.5; scutellum width: 5.9–6.5; abdominal width: 10.0– 10.5; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 1.5; III: 1.5–1.6; IV: 3.9–4.6; V: 4.5.

Diagnosis. Large (16.6–18.5 mm). Dorsal body surface green ( Fig. 59 A ). Ventral surface dark yellow to green with transversal green bands on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 59 B ). Antennae with first brown segment and second to fifth black segment ( Fig. 59 A–B ). Pronotum with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures ( Fig. 59 A ); anterolateral margin with a yellow band extending from the humeral angles to the head. Humeral angles short (1.8 times wider than long); apex with black spot expanding over the pronotal disc in dorsal view and restricted to the angles in ventral view; slightly bent backward ( Fig. 59 A–B ). Scutellum with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria ( Fig. 59 A ). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 59 A ). Connexival segments with concavities entirely covered by rectangular green spots separated by a large yellow median spot ( Fig. 59 A ), spots extending ventrally and green spot forming green bands on the abdomen ( Fig. 59 B ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices green ( Fig. 59 A ). Ventral surface, thorax with green bands; green band of the propleura connected to the green spot of the humeral angles ( Fig. 59 B ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 59 B ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 16 B ) with arms of anterior bifurcation rounded and laterally barely expanded at apex; anterior bifurcation somewhat excavated receiving fourth and almost every third rostral segment. Forelegs and midlegs reddish brown, hindlegs yellowish to light-brown ( Fig. 59 B ). Abdomen with spine of segment III rounded ( Fig. 16 B ). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow brown bands with adjacent smudged green band, reaching the lateral spots ( Fig. 59 B ). Pseudosutures concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 59 B , dark lines are a deterioration of the exoskeleton). Median longitudinal green band incomplete, restricted to the segment VII ( Fig. 59 B ). Trichobothria both parallel to the spiracle. Posterolateral angles of segment VII exceeding the level of apices of laterotergites IX ( Fig. 16 A ). Male genitalia. Unknown. Female genitalia, valvifers VIII with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures; medially near the sutural margin with a green spot, contiguous and not divergent; posterior margin subrectangular, with a small tooth projected on the lateral margin of laterotergites IX; posterior margin in U-shaped excavation. Laterotergites VIII with two green spots on outer lateral margins. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate passing the mediotergite VIII ( Fig. 16 A ).

Comments. See comments on E. (E.) chloroicterica sp. n.. Edessa (E.) flavofemorata sp. n. differs from the others by the yellow hindlegs and the remaining legs reddish brown (the other species have all legs reddish brown).

Distribution ( Fig. 73 ). FRENCH GUIANA.

Figures

FIGURE 16. A–B. Edessa (E.) flavofemorata sp. n.: A, genital plates; B, metasternal process. Scale= 1 mm.

FIGURE 59. A–F. Dorsal and ventral surface: A–B, Edessa (E.) flavofemorata sp. n.; C–D, Edessa (E.) fuliginocornis sp. n.; E–F, Edessa (E.) fulvomaculata sp. n. Scale= 5 mm.

FIGURE 73. Distribution map of the species.