Edessa (Edessa) simulata Mendonça & Silva & Fernandes 2023, sp. n.
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 simulata

description: Edessa (Edessa) simulata sp. n.
(Figs. 44, 68 C–D, 73)
Etymology. The name refers to the similarity with E. (E.) congrua Walker, 1868 (L. simulatus, imitate, copy).
Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL, Pará: Belém, 10-I-1978, H. Estevam (MPEG).
Paratypes. BRAZIL, Pará: 1♀, Belém, 8-II-1979, S. A. Santos (MPEG); 1♀, Belém, 17-III-1977, P. Waldir (MPEG); 1♀, Óbidos, V-1978, A. C. Domingues cols. (MNRJ); 1♀, Óbidos, II-1953, J. Brasillino (MNRJ); 1♁, Monte Alegre, IV-1978, A. C. Domingues cols. (UFPA); Goiás: 1♀, Aragarças, 14-XI-1959, Alvarenga (UFPA).
Measurements (n= 7). Total length: 15.5–17.3; head length: 1.2–1.4; head width: 2.8–2.9; pronotum length: 3.0–3.5; pronotum width: 11.4–12.7; scutellum length: 7.5–8.5; scutellum width: 5.5–6.4; abdominal width: 8.5– 9.0; length antennomeres: I: 0.9–1.0; II: 1.0–1.2; III: 1.5; IV: 3.0–3.1; V: 3.7.
Diagnosis. Large (15.5–17.3 mm). Dorsal body surface green (Fig. 68 C). Ventral surface dark yellow to dark brown with transversal black bands on thorax and abdomen (Fig. 68 D). Antennae reddish brown (Fig. 69 C–D). Pronotum with brown punctures (Fig. 68 C); anterolateral margin and cicatrices with brown punctures. Humeral angles short (1.25 times wider than long), projected laterally; apex concolorous with the surrounding surface and not curved (Fig. 68 C). Scutellum with brown punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria (Fig. 68 C). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface (Fig. 68 C). Connexival segments with concavities partially covered by circular black spots separated by a large yellow median spot (Fig. 68 C), spots extending ventrally, circular (Fig. 68 D). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black (Fig. 68 C). Ventral surface, thorax with black bands; dark band of the propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite (Fig. 68 D). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface (Fig. 68 D). Metasternal process (Figs. 44 G; 66 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. 68 D). Abdomen with spine of segment III rounded (Fig. 44 G). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow black bands with smudged margins, not reaching the lateral spots (Fig. 68 D). Pseudosutures partially covered by black bands (Fig. 68 D). Median longitudinal brown band incomplete, restricted to the segment VII (Fig. 68 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. 44 F). Male genitalia, posterolateral angles of pygophore slightly developed, slightly projected laterally (Fig. 44 A–B). Superior processes of the genital cup thick, rectangular, flattened and coarse posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate high carina ending in a small dentiform projection (Fig. 44 B, E, crenulate carina barely visible). Parameres (Fig. 44 D–E) with brown margins; anterior lobe little developed, straight and not visible in posterior view; dorsal lobe subtriangular with apex curved; posterior lobe rounded. Proctiger, posterior face subtriangular (Fig. 44 C–D). Ventral rim with lateral subdistal tuft of setae; with expansions little developed, rounded, concolorous with the surrounding surface (Fig. 44 C). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII subrectangular, with dark punctures and a small dentiform projection on the valvifers IX; sutural margins contiguous, brown and not divergent; posterior margin brown, in open U-shaped excavation. Laterotergites VIII with dark band on outer lateral margins. Laterotergites IX with apices acuminate passing the mediotergite VIII (Fig. 44 F).
Comments. See comments on E. (E.) guatemalensis sp. n.. Edessa (E.) simulata sp. n. differs from E. (E.) congrua Walker, 1868 (see Mendonça et al., 2023, Fig. 3 B) and E. (E.) guatemalensis sp. n. by the pygophore with the superior processes of the genital cup carina with small dentiform projection (the other species without dentiform projection).
Distribution (Fig. 73). BRAZIL: Pará, Goiás.
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 5372 (1) on pages 90-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10146342