Edessa (Edessa) inca, 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 : 57-59

Edessa (Edessa) inca sp. n.

( Figs. 26 , 62 C–D , 74 )

Etymology. The name refers to the ancient Inca civilization who lived in Peru.

Material examined. Holotype male. PERU, Satipo : Satipo, VIII-1944, P. Paprzy ( CEIOC).

Paratypes. PERU, Satipo: 2♁, Satipo , III-1944, P. Paprzyck ( CEIOC) ; 1♁ same data ( UFPA) ; 1♀, same data, I-1944 ( UFPA) ; 1♀, same data, X-1943 ( CEIOC) ; 1♁ 4♀, same data, VIII-1944 ( CEIOC) ; 1♀, same data, II-1944 ( CEIOC) .

Measurements (n= 12). Total length: 17.7–19.5; head length: 1.7; head width: 3.0–3.1; pronotum length: 3.5– 4.0; pronotum width: 12.4–13.3; scutellum length: 8.3–9.0; scutellum width: 6.2–6.7; abdominal width: 9.5–10.7; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 1.4–1.5; III: 2.0; IV: 4.0–4.2; V: 4.4.

Diagnosis. Large (17.7–19.5 mm). Dorsal body surface olive green, densely punctured ( Fig. 62 C ). Ventral surface dark yellow to brown with transversal black lines on thorax and abdomen ( Fig. 62 D ). Antennae reddish brown ( Fig. 62 C–D ). Pronotum with brown punctures ( Fig. 62 C ); anterolateral margin and cicatrices with black punctures. Humeral angles short (1.25 times wider than long); apex with black spot restricted to the angles in dorsal view and restricted to the margin of the angles in ventral view; bent backward ( Fig. 62 C–D ). Scutellum with brown punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria ( Fig. 62 C ). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 62 C ). Connexival segments with concavities almost entirely covered by subrectangular black spots separated by a large yellow median spot ( Fig. 62 C ), spots extending ventrally, triangular and line ( Fig. 62 D ). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black ( Fig. 62 C ). Ventral surface, thorax with black lines; dark line of the propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite ( Fig. 62 D ). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 62 D ). Metasternal process ( Figs. 26 G ; 62 D ) with arms of anterior bifurcation straight and laterally expanded at apex; anterior bifurcation broadly excavated receiving fourth rostral segment. Legs with tibiae and tarsi reddish, remaining yellow ( Fig. 62 D ). Abdomen with spine of segment III rounded ( Figs. 26 G ; 62 D ). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow solid black lines with well-defined margins, not reaching the lateral spots ( Fig. 62 D ). Pseudosutures concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 62 D ). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete ( Fig. 62 D ). Trichobothria one in line with spiracle and the other laterad. Posterolateral angles of segment VII not reaching the level of apices of laterotergites IX ( Fig. 26 F ). Male genitalia, dorsal side of the pygophore with a suffused brown area occupying 1/3 of the surface ( Fig. 26 A–B ). Posterolateral angles of the pygophore developed, projected laterally, apices with spots blacks ( Fig. 26 A–B, E ). Superior processes of the genital cup rectangular, thick, in flattened and coarse posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate high carina with a dentiform projection ( Fig. 26 B,E crenulate carina barely visible). Parameres ( Fig. 26 D–E ) with brown margins; anterior lobe subrectangular; dorsal lobe, subrectangular with curved apex; posterior lobe subrectangular. Proctiger, posterior face triangular ( Fig. 26 D–E ). Ventral surface with dark spot medially ( Fig. 25 C ). Ventral rim setose, with medial tuft ( Fig. 26 C ); with expansions developed, rounded and concolorous with the surrounding surface ( Fig. 26 C ). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII with dark punctures and projection rounded and small that projects to the valvifers IX; sutural margins contiguous brown and not divergent; posterior margin opening distal U-shaped excavation, brown and subrectangular. Laterotergites VIII with two small dark spots on lateral margins. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate passing the mediotergite VIII ( Fig. 26 F ).

Comments. Edessa (E.) inca sp. n. resembles E. (E.) maculosa sp. n. and E. (E.) electa Walker, 1868 (see Mendonça et al., 2023, Figs. 5 B–C,F , 25 C–D ). These species share the humeral angles black, slightly curved and globose; and pygophore with superior processes of the genital cup with carina with dentiform projection. Edessa (E.) inca sp. n. differs from the other two by the lateral spots of abdominal segments triangular (subrectangular in the other species); pygophore with ventral rim setose, with medial tuft (not setose in the other species) and valvifers VIII with rounded projection (without rounded projection in the other species).

Distribution ( Fig. 74 ). PERU: Satipo.

Figures

FIGURE 5. A–G. Edessa (E.) brevicornis sp. n.: A–E, pygophore in dorsal, dorsolateral, ventral, posterior and posterolateral views, respectively; F, genital plates; G, metasternal process. Scale= 1 mm.

FIGURE 25. A–G. Edessa (E.) immaculata sp. n.: A–E, pygophore in dorsal, dorsolateral, ventral, posterior and posterolateral views, respectively; F, genital plates; G, metasternal process. Scale= 1 mm.

FIGURE 26. A–G. Edessa (E.) inca sp. n.: A–E, pygophore in dorsal, dorsolateral, ventral, posterior and posterolateral views, respectively; F, genital plates; G, metasternal process. Scale= 1 mm.

FIGURE 62. A–F. Dorsal and ventral surface: A–B, Edessa (E.) immaculata sp. n.; C–D, Edessa (E.) inca sp. n.; E–F, Edessa (E.) indiscreta sp. n. Scale= 5 mm.

FIGURE 74. Distribution map of the species.