Hypoxys eburatulus Nunes & Campos & Mendonca & Cunha & Fernandes 2020, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Nunes, Benedito Mendes
name: Campos, Lourival Dias
name: Mendonca, Maria Thayane Da Silva
name: Cunha, Eduardo Victor De Paiva
name: Fernandes, Jose Antonio Marin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Hypoxys
Hypoxys eburatulus

description: Hypoxys eburatulus (Breddin, 1907) comb. nov.
(Figs. 5 A–E; 18 I–J; 21)
Edessa eburatula Breddin, 1907: 333; Kirkaldy, 1909: 368 (catalog)
Lectotype female. Suriname (SDEI); Designated by Gaedike (1971:85). Examined.
Material examined. COSTA RICA. Guanacaste: ♀ La Cruz, P. N. Guanacaste, Est. Pitilla, 9 Km S Santa Cecília, 5–30 JUL 1988, L–N 330200–380200 #52597, C. Chavez, Espinoza, Manual (red, libre), INB0003359227 (INBio); ♀ VI–18–1932, A. Alfaro (USNM); Alajuela: ♀ Sector San Ramón, 620m., 11–15 Abr 1994, L–N 318100–381900 #2831, E. Araya, INBIO CRI001 792184 (INBio); Heredia: ♂ ♀ La Selva Biol. Sta. 2 km. S. Pt. Viejo, 3–5–VI– 1984, Riley, Rider & LeDoux, Edessa eburatula Breddin, 1907 Fernandes, J. A. M. 1999 Comp. HOMOTYPE. (DAR); ♂ Est. Magsasay, 200m, P. N. Braulio Carrillo, May–1991, L–N–264600, 531000, M. A. Zumbado, INBIO CRI001 311335 (INBio); ♀ Estac. El Ceibo, 10Km, SE La Virgem, 450–550 m, IV–7–14–2003, 10º20’N, 84º05’W, E. G. Riley, TAMU—ENTO X0685736 (INBio); Limón: ♂ Amubri, 70m. 1–22 JUN 1995, L S 385000 578100 #5333, G. Gallardo, INBIO CRI002 235380 (INBio); ♂ Sardinas, R. N. F. S. Barra del Colorado, 15 m, 01–15– Oct–1994, L N 291900_565900 #3292, F. V. Araya, INBIO CRI002 120348 (INBio); same data: ♂ INBIO CRI002 120358 (INBio); ♀ Rio Sardinas, 10 m, R. N. F. S. Barra del Colorado, Set–1992, L–N 291500–564700, F. Araya, INBIO CRI000 997091 (INBio); ♀ Amubri, 70m, Talamanca, 1–22–Jul–1992, L–S 385500–578050, G. Gallardo, INBIO CRI000 757352 (INBio); San José: ♀ Mastatal, Camino a P. N. La Cangreja, 300m., 15 JUL 2004, L N 184950 496035 #77718, W. Porras, Libre, INB0003862260 (INBio); Puntarenas: ♂ Garabito, Camino a Bijagual, Altos Pochote, 400m, 20 JUL 2004, L N 193951 470740 #77676, W. Porras, Libre, INB0003861105 (INBio); ♂ Dos Brazos del Rio Rincon, 60m., 10 NOV 1995, L–S–285220–518600 #6489, L. Ângulo, INBIO CRI002 392115 (INBio); ♂ Quebrada Piedras Blancas, 400m., 10–14–AGO–1997, L–S–271400–524800 #47745, M. Lobo, INBIO CRI002 571805 (INBio); ♂ Rancho Quemado, Peninsula de Osa, 200m., Oct–1991, L–S–292500–511000, F. Que- sada, INBIO CRI000 465691 (INBio); PANAMA. Colón: ♀ Soberanía, Old Gamboa rd, el 40m., 12–VIII–1999, 09º05’00’’N 79º40’22’’W, J. Schaffner, TAMU–ENTO X0686457 (INBio); Panamá: ♂ ♀ C. Z. Barro Colorado isl., VII–24–68, D. Q. Cavagnaro & M. E. Irwin collectors, Edessa eburatula Breddin, 1907 Comp. w. TYPE Fernandes, JAM 1999 (CAS).
Measurements. total length: 15.8–18.2; head length: 2.0–2.2; head width: 3.1–3.4; pronotal width: 10.0–11.3; abdominal width: 8.8–10.0; length of antennal segments. I: 0.7–1.0; II: 1.6–2.0; III: 1.2–1.6; IV: 4.0–5.2; V: 4.4–5.2; interocular distance: 1.4–1.6; scutellum length: 7.3–9.2; scutellum width: 5.5–6.3; pronotal length: 3.2–3.8.
Diagnosis. Anterolateral margin of pronotum yellow without solid black stripe. Cicatrices with dark brown punctures delimiting anterior sulci (Fig. 18I). Anterolateral margin with some brown punctures. Male (Fig. 5 A–C). Pygophore with dorsal rim widely excavated (Fig. 5A). Superior process of genital cup short, half-moon shaped; next to dorsal rim (Fig. 5B). Paramere with a single lobe curved anteriorly, tapering and elongated, margin rounded; stalk cylindrical with a small carina on inner side continuing along anterior lobe (Fig. 5B). Proctiger with laterodorsal tufts of setae separated by wide ridge; posterior face ogival (Fig. 5B,C). Ventral rim with expansions rounded, slightly tumid, short, almost level with posterolateral angles in ventral view (Fig. 5C); base of each expansion with a conspicuous transverse carina (Fig. 5A,B). Female (Fig. 5D). Gonocoxites 8 posterior margin sinuous, slanting, inner angle rounded; sutural border divergent from basal third, gonapophyses 8 slightly exposed.
Comments. The male is described here for the first time. Breddin (1907) considered Edessa eburatula closely related to E. jugalis, which is synonymized with H. quadriden s here. Actually, Hypoxys eburatulus is closely related to H. dolosus. Both species can be separated by expansions of ventral rim smaller in H. eburatulus (Fig. 5C) than in H. dolosus (Fig. 4C). Superior process of the genital cup is very similar in the photos presented here, but in H. eburatulus ventral part of the process is as long as dorsal part (Fig. 5B); in H. dolosus ventral part is much longer than dorsal one (hidden by paramere in Fig. 4B), dorsal part looks more a transverse crest as described above. Paramere is also very similar, but in H. dolosus the developed inner carina gives a triangular shape to the head of paramere (Fig. 4B), while in H. eburatulus the tiny carina does not interfere and the head looks convex (Fig. 5B). Genital plates are very similar and do not show reliable characters. The distribution is the best way to separate both species because H. eburatulus is the only species of the genus found in Central America (Fig. 21).
Distribution (Fig. 21). COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, Alajuela, Heredia, Limón, San José, Puntarenas; PANA- MA: Colón, Panamá.
description: Published as part of Nunes, Benedito Mendes, Campos, Lourival Dias, Mendonca, Maria Thayane Da Silva, Cunha, Eduardo Victor De Paiva & Fernandes, Jose Antonio Marin, 2020, Revision of Hypoxys Amyot & Serville, 1843 stat. rest. (Heteroptera Pentatomidae), pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4742 (3) on pages 413-414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3677869