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Issue: Vol. 3774 No. 5: 10 Mar. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.5.3
Page range: 441–459
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 2

Proposition of a new species group in Edessa Fabricius, 1803
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae)

Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075–110, Belém, Par, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075–110, Belém, Par, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa #1 66075–110, Belém, Par, Brazil.
pudibunda species group Central America Taxonomy new species Neotropical region

Abstract

The pudibunda group of Edessa is here proposed to include Edessa pudibunda Stål, 1862, Edessa picticornis Stål, 1872, Edessa godmani Distant, 1881, Edessa punctata Santos & Fernandes sp. nov., Edessa luteomaculata Santos & Fernandes sp. nov., Edessa nigriventris Santos & Fernandes sp. nov. and Edessa nigridorsata sp. nov. This group is restricted to Central America. Descriptions, measurements and illustrations of the metasternal process, male and female external genitalia and distributional map are provided. Lectotypes of E. godmani and E. picticornis are here designated.