Edessa (E.) bella Fernandes & Silva, 2015

Mendonça, Maria Thayane Da Silva, Silva, Valéria Juliete Da & Fernandes, José Antônio Marin, 2023, Diagnose of the nominal subgenus of Edessa and description of the E. sexdens group (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Edessinae), Zootaxa 5240 (1), pp. 1-63 : 12-14

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( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 , 24 C,D View FIGURE 24 , 31 A View FIGURE 31 )

Edessa bella Fernandes et al., 2015: 513 .

Holotype and paratypes: see Fernandes et al. 2015.

The original description and comments were presented in Fernandes et al. (2015). Here are photographs of the holotype and a plate with photographs of the male and female external genitalia, as the original description only includes hand-drawn drawings.

Additional material. COSTA RICA, Heredia: 2♁, Biol. Sta. La Selva , 31-VIII-1998, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien ( JEE) ; 1♀, 5km of Puerto Viejo La Selva Biol. Station , 9-X-2009 ( NMPC) ; 1♀, 5km of Puerto Viejo La Selva Biol. Station , 2-XI-2004 ( NMPC) .

Diagnose. See Fernandes et al. (2015).

Complementary description: Humeral angles as long as wide ( Fig. 24 C View FIGURE 24 ); humeral angle black spot restricted to the distal part of the angle in dorsal and ventral views ( Fig. 24 C,D View FIGURE 24 ). Connexival segments with concavities partially covered by black spots; rounded spots in ventral view ( Fig. 24 C,D View FIGURE 24 ). Ventral surface. Dark stripe of the propleuron covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 24 D View FIGURE 24 ). Legs with tibiae and tarsi darker than the rest ( Fig. 24 D View FIGURE 24 ). Abdomen with spine of third segment rounded ( Fig. 2 G View FIGURE 2 ). Intersegmental areas black, not reaching ventral spots of connexivum ( Fig. 24 D View FIGURE 24 ). Pseudosutures concolorous with surface ( Fig. 24 D View FIGURE 24 ). Male genitalia, dorsal side of the pygophore with a suffused brown area occupying 2/3 of the surface ( Fig. 2 A,B,E View FIGURE 2 ). Superior process of genital cup continuing ventrally in a high crenulated carina, ending in a small dentiform projection ( Fig. 2 B,E View FIGURE 2 ). Anterior half of proctiger brown ( Fig. 2 A,B,D,E View FIGURE 2 ). Female genitalia, laterotergites VIII with two small dark spots on outer lateral margins ( Fig. 2 F View FIGURE 2 ).

Comments. This species is unique in the subgenus due to color pattern of the humeral angle which is orange and black ( Fig. 24 C,D View FIGURE 24 ). The other species of the subgenus that resembles E. (E.) bella is E. (E.) lewisi . Both have a similar distribution ( Figs. 31 A View FIGURE 31 , 32 A,B View FIGURE 32 ) and size of the body ( Figs. 24 C,D View FIGURE 24 , 27 C,D View FIGURE 27 ), but the former has the connexival segments with dark spots and corial veins concolorous ( Fig. 24 C View FIGURE 24 ) and the later has the connexival segments without spots and corial veins creamy ( Fig. 27 C View FIGURE 27 ), clearly contrasting with the color of the corium ( Fig. 27 C View FIGURE 27 ).