Edessa miniata Westwood 1837
Creators: name: Mendonça, Maria Thayane Da Silva
name: Silva, Valéria Juliete Da
name: Fernandes, José Antônio Marin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Edessa
Edessa miniata

description: Edessa miniata. Lectotype male. Cayenne [French Guiana] (HCOE). Examined.
Material examined. FRENCH GUIANA: 1♀, Route de Kaw, G. Tavakilian leg. (MNHN); 1♀, Borw 4, IV-1983, G. Tavakilian leg. (MNHN); 1♁, Route de Kaw, II-1983, G. Tavakilian col. (MNHN). BRAZIL, Pará: 1♀, PA/AP, Rio Jarí, 1961, Dr. W. Egler (MNRJ); 1♀, Pará, Julho, (Edessa miniata (Westwood, 1837) Fernandes JAM 1999) (CMNH); 1♀, Moju, Alça Viária, Sítio Sabiá, 1-IX-2013, F. Carvalho Filho (MPEG); 1♁, Benevides, Ilha de Mosqueiro, 26-XI-1977, J. Becker (MNRJ); 1♁, Utinga, Belém, VIII-1947 (MPEG); 1♁, No date, 1936, (Edessa miniata (Westwood, 1837) Fernandes JAM 1999) (RMNH).
Measurements (n= 9). Total length: 20.4–24.5; head length: 1.6–2.5; head width: 3.7–4.0; pronotum length: 3.7–4.4; pronotum width: 13.9–16.2; scutellum length: 10.1–11.1; scutellum width: 7.5–8.5; abdominal width: 13.0–14.3; length antennomers: I: 1.0–1.0; II: 2.0–2.3; III: 2.5–2.7; IV: 5.0–5.1; V: 6.1–0.0.
Diagnosis. Specimens large (20.4–24.5 mm). Dorsal surface orange (Fig. 27 E). Ventral surface dark yellow to orange with transversal black lines on thorax and abdomen (Fig. 27 F). Antennae brown (Fig. 27 E). Pronotum with punctures concolorous with surface (Fig. 27 E); with thick dark band on the posterior margin and may be complete or incomplete (Fig. 27 E). Humeral angles short (1,5 times wider than long) (Fig. 27 E), apices black (Fig. 27 E); humeral angle black spot expanding to pronotum in dorsal and ventral views (Fig. 27 E,F). Scutellum with punctures concolorous with surface (Fig. 27 E); apex black, not reach end of corium (Fig. 27 E). Corium black with all veins concolorous with surface (Fig. 27 E). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black (Fig. 27 E); connexival segments with concavities entirely covered by rectangular black spots and separated by a large yellow median spot (Fig. 27 E), spots extending ventrally and dark spot with joining the intersegmental regions of the abdomen and forming dark bands that occupy two segments (Fig. 27 F). Ventral surface. Thorax with black stripes (Fig. 27 F); dark stripe of the propleuron connected to the dark spot of the humeral angle (Fig. 27 F). Evaporatorium concolorous with thorax (Fig. 27 F). Metasternal process (Fig. 14 G) with anterior apex straight and laterally little expanded, margin rounded; anterior face somewhat excavated; anterior bifurcation receiving fourth rostral segment. Legs orange (Fig. 27 F). Abdomen with spine of third segment acuminated (Fig. 27 F). Lateral margin black, expanding on intersegmental areas, except large yellow spots on ventral part of connexivum (Fig. 27 F). Median longitudinal brown band restricted to segment VII and part ofVI (Fig. 27 F). Small rounded light brown spots near the spiracles (Fig. 27 F). Trichobotria one in line with spiracle and the other laterad. Posterolateral angles of segment VII on the same level of apices of laterotergites IX in females (Fig. 14 F). Male genitalia, dorsal side of the pygophore with a suffused reddish area occupying 1/3 of the surface (Fig. 14 A,B,D,E). Posterolateral angle of pygophore very developed (Fig. 14 A). Superior process of genital cup laminar, rectangular, thick; flattened and coarse in posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulated high carina, ending in a small dentiform projection (Fig. 14 B,E). Ventral rim not setose (Fig. 14 C). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII with a small dentiform projection that protrudes into the valvifers IX (Fig. 14 F); tumescence in the central region of the valvifers VIII with black spot (Fig. 14 F); laterotergites VIII black two black spots on outer lateral margins (Fig. 14 F); laterotergites IX with black spot (Fig. 14 F).
Male genitalia (Fig. 14 A–E): Parameres with black margin; anterior and posterior lobe little developed and rounded; dorsal lobe rounded and subrectangular (Fig. 14 B,D,E). Proctiger with subelliptical posterior face (Fig. 14 D,E). Ventral rim with expansions little developed, rounded, concolorous with surface, the expansions not reaching beyond apices of posterolateral angles (Fig. 14 C).
Female genitalia: Valvifers VIII with dark punctures; inner margins contiguous, with brown band and not divergent; distal margin forming U-shaped excavation, with brown band and arched. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate passing the sclerite uniting laterotergites VIII (Fig. 14 F).
Comments. The female of Edessa (E.) miniata is described for the first time. This is a very peculiar species of Edessa due to its dorsal pattern of large black areas contrasting with red parts of the body (Fig. 27 E), also contrasting with yellow spots on connexivum (Fig. 27 E).
Distribution (Fig. 31 A): FRENCH GUIANA: Cayenne; BRAZIL: Pará.
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 5240 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5240.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7639547