Edessa (Edessa) surinamensis, 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 : 92-94

Edessa (Edessa) surinamensis sp. n.

( Figs. 45 , 68 E–F , 72 )

Etymology. Named after the Country of the type locality of the species.

Material examined. Holotype male. SURINAME: Salingre , nr. 255 ( ZMH).

Measurements (n= 1). Total length: 19.7; head length: 1.7; head width: 3.4; pronotum length: 3.9; pronotum width: 13.5; scutellum length: 9.1; scutellum width: 7.0; abdominal width: 11.4; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 1.5; III: 2.0; IV: 3.0; V: 3.7.

Diagnosis. Large (19.7 mm). Dorsal body surface olive green, densely punctured ( Fig. 68 E ). Ventral surface dark yellow with transversal black bands on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 68 F ). Head with concolorous with the surrounding surface to brown punctures. Antennae yellow ( Fig. 68 E–F ). Pronotum with brown punctures ( Fig. 68 E ); anterolateral margin and cicatrices with black punctures. Humeral angles short (1.25 times wider than long); apex with brown spot expanded over the disc of the pronotum in dorsal view; bent backward ( Fig. 68 E–F ). Scutellum with brown punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria ( Fig. 68 E ). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 68 E ). Connexival segments with concavities almost entirely covered by subrectangular black spots separated by a large yellow median spot ( Fig. 68 E ), spots extending ventrally, subrectangular ( Fig. 68 F ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black ( Fig. 68 E ). Ventral surface, thorax with black bands; dark band of the propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 68 F ). Proepisternum with band and dark punctures ( Fig. 68 F ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface; peritreme straight ( Fig. 68 F ). Metasternal process ( Fig. 45 F ) with arms of anterior bifurcation straight and laterally expanded at apex; anterior bifurcation slightly excavated does not reach the fourth rostral segment. Legs with tarsi somewhat darker than the other articles, reddish brown ( Fig. 68 F ). Abdomen with spine of segment III rounded ( Figs. 45 F ; 68 F ). Intersegmental areas covered by wide solid black bands with smudged margins, reaching the lateral spots ( Fig. 68 F ). Pseudosutures solid black with well-defined margins ( Fig. 68 F ). Near the spiracle a circular black spot ( Fig. 68 F ). Median longitudinal brown band complete ( Fig. 68 F ). Trichobothria one in line with spiracle and the other laterad. Male genitalia, posterolateral angles of pygophore very developed, well projected laterally, apices internally with spots black ( Fig. 45 A–B, D ). Superior processes of the genital cup rectangular, thick, in flattened and coarse posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate high carina ( Fig. 45 B, D–E , crenulate carina barely visible). Parameres ( Fig. 45 D–E ) anterior lobe rounded; dorsal lobe subtriangular, with curved apex; posterior lobe subrectangular, with curved apex. Proctiger, posterior face subtriangular ( Fig. 45 D–E ). Surface ventral with dark spot medial and laterally ( Fig. 45 C ). Ventral rim with lateral subdistal tuft of setae ( Fig. 45 C, E ); with expansions undeveloped and concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 45 C ). Female genitalia. Unknown.

Comments: See comments on E. (E.) crassicornis sp. n., E. (E.) humeroglobosa sp. n., and E. (E.) limeirai sp. n.

Distribution ( Fig. 72 ): SURINAME.

Figures

FIGURE 45. A–F. Edessa (E.) surinamensis sp. n.: A–E, pygophore in dorsal, dorsolateral, ventral, posterior and posterolateral views, respectively; F, metasternal process. Scale= 1 mm.

FIGURE 68. A–F. Dorsal and ventral surface: A–B, Edessa (E.) rutilata sp. n.; C–D, Edessa (E.) simulata sp. n.; E–F, Edessa (E.) surinamensis sp. n. Scale= 5 mm.

FIGURE 72. Distribution map of the species.