Edessa antilope (Fabricius, 1798)

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 32

Edessa antilope (Fabricius, 1798)

Distribution. Mexico, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana.

Distribution in Colombia. Cundinamarca (?) (“ Bogotá ”).

Remarks. Edessa antilope has the dorsal surface green mainly, the humeral angles are black, the corium is dark brown, the ventral surface is yellow mainly, the evaporatorium is dark brown, the ventral surface of the humeral angles is gently excavated, the scutellum is long, with the apex acute, the superior process of the genital cup is straight, the paramere is falcate, and the distal margin of the gonocoxite VIII is arcuate, projected over bases of the laterotergite IX.

References. Silva et al. 2017.