Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 3313 No. 1: 15 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3313.1.2
Page range: 12–22
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species group in Edessa Fabricius, 1803 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae)

Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075–110, Belém, Pará, Brazil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia UFPA/MPEG. Capes Fellowship
Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075–110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Hemiptera caldaria group Neotropical region new species taxonomy lectotype synonym

Abstract

The caldaria group of Edessa is proposed to include four species: Edessa caldaria Distant, 1890, Edessa pantherina Bergroth,1891, Edessa rufomaculata sp. nov. and Edessa costaricensis sp. nov. Diagnoses, line drawings of the metasternal process,male and female external genitalia, digital habitus photographs and distributional maps are provided. This group can be identi-fied by rounded to ovate body shape, pattern of maculae on connexivum and stripes on ventral surface. The following syn-onyms are proposed: Edessa pacifica Breddin, 1903 = Edessa pantherina Bergroth, 1891. The lectotype of Edessa caldaria is designated.

References

  1. Bergroth, E. (1891) Contributions a L’etude des Pentatomides. Revue d’Entomologie, 10, 230–235.

    Bergroth, E. (1908) Enumeratio Pentatomidarum post Catalogum bruxellensem descriptarum. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 15, 131–200.

    Breddin, G. (1903) Neue Arten der Gattung Edessa Fab. Societas entomológica, 18(18), 139–140.

    Distant, W.L. (1892) Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera – Heteroptera. In: Godman, F. (ed.) Biologia Centrali–Americana. London, vol.1, pp. 369–462.

    Fernandes, J.A.M. (2010) A new genus and species of Edessinae from Amazon region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zootaxa, 2662, 53–65.

    Fernandes, J.A.M. & van Doesburg, P.H. (2000) The E. cervus-group of Edessa Fabricius, 1803 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae). Zoologische Mededelingen, 74(8), 151–165.

    Kirkaldy, G.W. (1909) Catalogue of Hemiptera (Heteroptera) vol.1 Cimicidae. Felix L. Dames Berlin, XL+392 pp.

    Kment, P. & Vilímová, J. (2010) Thoracic scent efferent system of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): A review of terminology. Zootaxa, 2706, 1–77.

    Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. (1893) Catalogue Général des Hemiptéres. Tome I. Hétéroptéres Pentatomidae. F. Hayez Brussels, X+286 pp.