Edessa (Edessa) maculosa 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 maculosa

description: Edessa (Edessa) maculosa sp. n.
(Figs. 30, 63 E–F, 72)
Etymology. The name refers to the dark spot of the connexival segments (L. macula, spot).
Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL, Rondônia: Forte Príncipe da Beira, 19-XI–3-XII-1967, G. R. Kloss coll. (MZUSP)
Paratype. BRAZIL, Rondônia: 1♀, Forte Príncipe da Beira, 19-XI–3-XII-1967, G. R. Kloss coll. (MZUSP).
Measurements (n= 2). Total length: 20.3–21.2; head length: 1.6; head width: 3.5–3.6; pronotum length: 4.0– 4.1; pronotum width: 13.9–14.5; scutellum length: 9.6–10.1; scutellum width: 7.3–7.5; abdominal width: 11.6–13.0; length antennomeres: I: 1.0; II: 1.5–2.0; III: 1.9–2.0; IV: 4.8; V: 5,1.
Diagnosis. Large (20.3–21.2 mm). Dorsal body surface green (Fig. 63 E). Ventral surface dark yellow to brown with transversal brown lines on thorax and abdomen (Fig. 63 F). Antennae reddish brown (Fig. 63 E–F). Pronotum coarse, with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures (Fig. 63 E). Humeral angles short (1.4 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. 63 E–F). Scutellum with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures; apex not reaching the end of coria (Fig. 63 E). Coria with all veins concolorous with the surrounding surface (Fig. 63 E). Connexival segments with concavities almost entirely covered by subrectangular black spots separated by a large yellow median spot (Fig. 63 E), spots extending ventrally, subrectangular (Fig. 63 F). Posterolateral angles of connexivum with apices black (Fig. 63 E). Ventral surface, thorax with brown lines; dark line of the propleura covering 2/3 of the width of the sclerite (Fig. 63 F). Evaporatorium concolorous with the surrounding surface; peritreme straight (Fig. 63 F). Metasternal process (Fig. 30 G) with arms of anterior bifurcation straight and laterally expanded at apex; anterior bifurcation broadly excavated receiving fourth and a small part of the third rostral segment. Legs brown (Fig. 63 F). Abdomen with spine of third segment rounded (Fig. 30 G). Intersegmental areas covered by narrow brown lines with smudged margins, not reaching the lateral spots (Fig. 30 G). Pseudosutures light brown with well-defined margins (Fig. 63 F). Median longitudinal area spotless (Fig. 63 F). Trichobothria both parallel to the spiracle. Posterolateral angles of segment VII exceeding the level of apices of laterotergites IX, almost reaching the level of apices of laterotergites VIII (Fig. 30 F). Male genitalia, dorsal rim with margin straight (Fig. 30 A). Posterolateral angles of pygophore slightly developed, slightly projected laterally, apices internally with spots black (Fig. 30 A–B). Superior processes of the genital cup rectangular, thick, in flattened and coarse posterior view, continuing ventrally in a crenulate, short and high carina, ending in a small dentiform projection (Fig. 30 B, D–E, crenulate carina barely visible). Parameres (Fig. 30 D–E) with black margins; anterior lobe more developed and subrectangular; dorsal lobe rounded with very curved apex; posterior lobe subrectangular. Proctiger, posterior face subelliptical (Fig. 30 D–E). Ventral rim not setose (Fig. 30 C); with expansions undeveloped and concolorous with the surrounding surface (Fig. 30 C). Female genitalia, valvifers VIII cordiform, with concolorous with the surrounding surface punctures; sutural margins contiguous brown and not divergent; posterior margin in open Vshaped excavation and brown. Laterotergites VIII with dark band on lateral margins. Laterotergites IX with apices slightly acuminate passing the mediotergite VIII (Fig. 30 F).
Comments. See comments on E. (E.) inca sp. n.. Edessa (E.) maculosa sp. n. differs from E. (E.) inca and E. (E.) electa Walker, 1868 (see Mendonça et al., 2023, Fig. 5 B–F) by the pygophore with superior processes of the genital cup with a short carina (long carina in the others) and laterotergites VIII with dark band on outer lateral margins (two dark spots on outer lateral margins in the others).
Distribution (Fig. 72). BRAZIL: Rondônia.
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 page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10146342