Edessa holochlorata, Bitar & Mendonça & Fernandes, 2023

Bitar, Murilo Victor Silva, Mendonça, Maria Thayane Da Silva & Fernandes, José Antônio Marin, 2023, Description of seven new species of Edessa Fabricius, 1803 from Central America (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Edessinae), Zootaxa 5278 (3), pp. 578-600 : 593

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.3.9

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7906782

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scientific name

Edessa holochlorata
status

sp. nov.

Edessa holochlorata sp. n.

( Figs. 7 View FIGURE 7 ; 9 C, F View FIGURE 9 ; 10 B View FIGURE 10 )

Etymology. The name refers to the uniform dorsal color of the body (Gr. Holus - whole; Gr. Chlorus - green).

Material examined. Holotype male. COSTA RICA, Limón: 1♁, Est. Hitoy-Cerere, 100m, Res. Biol. Hitoy-Cerere, XI/1992, G. Carballo, L-N 184200, 643300, CRI000 926730 ( INBio).

Paratypes. COSTA RICA, Limón: 1♁, Amburi , 70m, XI/1995, G. Gallardo, L_S_385000_578100 #6826. CRI002 429864 ( INBio) ; 1♀, Valle La Estrella, Banano Lodge , 80m, 19–20/V/2007, J. A. Azofeifa & J. Moutero, T. P., at lights, L N 200889 639300 #91343, INB0004080803 ( INBio) ; Puntarenas: 1♀, R.V.S. Rio Piro, Golfito, Finca Catalino , 200m, 16/IX/2004, Y. Cardenas, M. Moraga, D. Briceño & B. Gamboa, at lights, L_S_264550_ 535590 #78215, INB0003880887 ( INBio) ; 1♀, Sirena, Corcovado Nat. Pk., Osa Penin. , 5–11/I/1981, D. H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, CRI001 714731 ( INBio) ; 1♀, Est. Sirena , 0–100m, P. N. Corcovado, IV–1992, G. Rodriguez (Costa Rica, INBIO CRI000, 545535; sp 195, Fernandes JAM) ( JEE) ; PANAMA, Bocas del Toro: 1♀, Miramar , 9ºN; 82º15’W, 2/I/1979, Henk Wolda ( DOE) GoogleMaps ; 1♁, Miramar , 9°N 82°15’W, 28–I–1979, Henk Wolda ( DOE) GoogleMaps .

Measurements (n= 8): antennomeres length: 1st: 0.82–0.88mm; 2nd: 1.47–1.57mm; 3rd: 1.52–2.02mm; 4th: 3.73–4.26mm; 5th: 3.84–4.35mm; head length: 1.40–1.79mm; head width: 2.27–3.10mm; pronotal length: 3.12–3.36mm; pronotal width: 7.20–10.16mm; scutellum length: 5.54–6.22mm; scutellum width: 4.23–4.69mm; abdominal width: 7.02–10.08mm; total length: 12.22–17.38mm.

Diagnosis: body dorsally green ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Antennae light-brown ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Anterolateral margin of pronotum yellow ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Black minute longitudinal callosity adjacent to humeral angles ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Humeral angles concolorous with dorsum, straight, short, less than the width of an eye ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Last connexival segment with only posterior margin black ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Ventral surface: green with median area yellow, without dark stripes, intersegmental areas of the abdomen slightly darker than the rest ( Fig. 9 F View FIGURE 9 ). Anterior bifurcation of the metasternal process with arms very short, wide, swollen, apices rounded ( Fig. 9 F View FIGURE 9 ). Male genitalia: pygophore trapezoidal ( Fig. 7 A, B View FIGURE 7 ). Superior process of the genital cup subtriangular, surface rugose, slightly concave ( Fig. 7 C, D View FIGURE 7 ). Parameres with anterior lobe long and subtriangular ( Fig. 7 C, D View FIGURE 7 ); dorsal margin shallowly excavated ( Fig. 7 C, D View FIGURE 7 ); posterior lobe short and triangular ( Fig. 7 C, D View FIGURE 7 ). Proctiger laterally strongly excavated, separated by feeble low carina ( Fig. 7 C View FIGURE 7 ); posterior face rounded to slightly elliptic ( Fig. 7 C View FIGURE 7 ). Ventral rim with median notch shallow and wide ( Fig. 7 B View FIGURE 7 ); expansions slightly developed ( Fig. 7 B View FIGURE 7 ). Female genitalia ( Fig. 7 E View FIGURE 7 ): valvifers VIII punctured with wide and deep V-shaped excavation; inner margin overlapping each other.

Description: head: clypeus and jugae, slightly ridged. Bucculae subtriangular, completely harboring first labial segment. Thorax: dorsal surface: pronotum with punctures concolorous, sparse, mostly present on posterior ¾ ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Anterior margin of pronotum with row of sparse punctures ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Scutellum with punctures concolorous, sparse on anterior half, grouped much tighter on posterior half ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Corium with concolorous punctures ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ); membrane transparent, unpigmented ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Ventral surface: prothorax–mesothorax irregularly punctured, punctures concolorous or dark ( Fig. 9 F View FIGURE 9 ). Peritreme ruga-like, reaching 4/5 of the distance between ostiole of the scent gland and lateral margin of metapleuron ( Fig. 9 F View FIGURE 9 ). Metasternal process with anterior arms slightly divergent, anterior bifurcation receiving only part of fourth rostral segment ( Fig. 9 F View FIGURE 9 ). Abdomen: dorsal surface: posterolateral angles of connexival segments with apices black ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ). Male genitalia: dorsal rim with brown large spot that extends to dorsal surface ( Fig. 7 A View FIGURE 7 ); shallowly concave ( Fig. 7 A View FIGURE 7 ). Posterolateral angles well developed ( Fig. 7 A View FIGURE 7 ); rounded, slightly swollen ( Fig. 7 A View FIGURE 7 ). Ventral rim with expansions short, rounded, slightly swollen ( Fig. 7 B View FIGURE 7 ). Female genitalia ( Fig. 7 E View FIGURE 7 ): valvifers VIII convex reaching base of valvifers IX, excavation exposing part of valvulae IX. Laterotergites VIII acute, outer lateral margin arched, sinuous, free distal spinose part about 1/4 of its length. Valvifers IX gently punctured, trapezoidal. Laterotergites IX acute clearly surpassing sclerite uniting laterotergites VIII.

Differential diagnosis: among the species in this article, Edessa holochlorata sp. n. stands out for having a completely green corium ( Fig. 9 C View FIGURE 9 ), unlike the brown corium of all others ( Figs. 8 A, B, C View FIGURE 8 ; 9 A, B View FIGURE 9 ). Furthermore, male and female genitalia also present distinctive characteristics like the shape of the parameres and overlapping valvifers VIII ( Fig. 7 C, E View FIGURE 7 ).

Distribution ( Fig. 10 B View FIGURE 10 ): COSTA RICA: Limón, Puntarenas; PANAMA: Bocas del Toro.

INBio

National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Rica

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Edessa

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