Epipedus Spinola, 1837

Lupoli, Roland, 2016, Diagnosis of Calagasma Bergroth and Epipedus Spinola with description of Calagasma eclipsa sp. nov. and Epipedus rolstoni sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Carpocorini), Zootaxa 4170 (2), pp. 330-338 : 331

Epipedus Spinola, 1837

Epipedus Spinola, 1837: 314 –315 (description); Rolston, 1987: 69 –70 (diagnosis)

Diagnosis. Body length larger than 10.0 mm. Shape of the body oval with a ratio of length versus width of the body larger than 1.39 ( Fig. 1 C & 1G). Mandibular plates reflexed along lateral margins, converging over clypeus apically. Antennae 4-segmented: antennomers I surpassing apex of head, antennomers II with black spot at the tip, longer than antennomers III (not seen in E. rolstoni because they are missing). Anterolateral margins of pronotum convex. Corium with black deep contrasting punctations. Anterolateral border of exocorium flat. Apices of tibiae triangular.

Comments. Rolston (1987) mentioned the mandibular plates strongly reflexed along lateral margins, the antennomers I surpassing apex of head, the anterolateral margins of pronotum strongly reflexed and tibiae with apex flattened or broadly rounded, as diagnosis characters of Epipedus , but not the other ones above. The other characters he mentioned are not diagnostic.

Figures

FIGURE 1. A: Calagasma margarita Bergroth, 1914. French Guiana. Dorsal view drawn by Bergroth (1914). Scale = 2 mm. B: Epipedus histrio Spinola, 1837. Brazil. Lectotype ♀ conserved at MRSN, dorsal view drawn by Rolston (1987), montage of his 3 separate figures (dorsal view, pronotum and right corium). Stippled areas correspond to a rufous (red-brown) color. Scale = 2 mm. C: E. histrio Spinola, 1837. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Corcovado mountain) 1961, Alvarenga & Seabra leg. ♀ specimen conserved at UFPR, dorsal view. Scale = 2 mm. Photo Jocelia Grazia, 2016. D: C. margarita Bergroth, 1914. French Guiana. syntype ♂ conserved at MZHF, dorsal view. Scale = 2 mm. Photo Pekka Malinen (MZHF), 2016. E: C. margarita Bergroth, 1914. French Guiana, Roura (Montagne des Chevaux RN 2 pK 22) 26. VII. 2014, SEAG leg. ♂ specimen, dorsal view. Scale = 2 mm. Collection Roland Lupoli. Photo Roland Lupoli, 2015. F: same in partial lateral view. G: Epipedus rolstoni Lupoli, sp. nov. holotype ♀ conserved at AMNH, dorsal view. Scale = 2 mm. Photo Jocelia Grazia, 2016. H: Calagasma eclipsa Lupoli, sp. nov. French Guiana, 1913 Dr Bongrand leg. holotype ♂ conserved at MNHN, dorsal view. Scale = 2 mm. Photo Roland Lupoli, 2016. I: same in ventral view. J: same in lateral view.