Seventeen new Species of Hypoxys Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae) Author Nunes, Benedito Mendes 0000-0001-6708-9386 Universidade Federal do Pará, Faculdade de Educação do Campo, Matinha, Cametá, Pará, Brazil. beneditomn @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6708 - 9386 beneditomn@gmail.com Author Mendonça, Maria Thayane Da Silva Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa # 1 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil. Author Fernandes, Jose Antonio Marin Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Augusto Correa # 1 66075 - 110, Belém, Pará, Brazil. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-06-29 5159 2 187 220 journal article 84345 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.2.2 0fc99c6a-12e5-47ee-ad48-8f3a91fa9281 1175-5326 6777058 0D339FF5-003D-4ACB-90C7-40495C21C68B Hypoxys cristatus sp. n. ( Figures 5A–E , 18I–J , 21A ) http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 2D443324-B6EA-423B-98DE-FE6E873B7D62 Material examined (n=8). Holotype ♂ : BRAZIL . Mato Grosso . Chapada dos Guimarães , III.1979 , O. Roppa & A. Domingos leg. ( MNRJ ) . Paratypes : BRAZIL . Pará : ♀ Melgaço-Caxiuanã , G-PPBio– Caquajó, C – 2500m ( CJ – CI ), 18.IX.2006 , rede entomológica, A.M. Balieiro leg. ( MPEG ) ; Mato Grosso : ♀ Cláudia , 13.VII.2010 , R.M. Miranda leg. ( INPA ) ; same data : ♀ 20.VII.2010 , P.J. Silva leg.. ( INPA ) ; same data holotype : ♀ ( MNRJ ) ; Rondônia : ♀ 62 Km SW Ariquemes , near Fazenda Rancho Grande , 6–15.XII.1990 , D.A. Rider & J.E. Eger leg. ( DAR ) ; same data: ♂ 8–20.XI.1994 , J.E. Eger , L.B. & C.W. O’Brien leg. ( JEE ) ; ♀ Line 10 at Rio Pardo 5 Km S. Cacaulândia , 8–20.XI.1994 , J.E. Eger , leg. ( JEE ) . Measurements. Total length: 14.8–16.8; head length: 1.5–1.9; head width: 3.0–3.3; pronotal length: 2.6–3.3; pronotal width: 9.2–10.2; scutellum length: 7.2–8.0; scutellum width: 5.1–5.8; abdominal width: 8.2–9.4; length of antennal segments. I: 1.0–1.1; II: 1.2–2.1; III: 1.1–1.5; IV: 3.1–4.8; V: 6.3. Diagnosis. Anterolateral margin of pronotum with solid black stripe along all of its extension. Anterolateral margin punctured dorsally. Cicatrices of pronotum with brown to concolorous punctures delimiting anterior sulci ( Fig. 18I ). Scutellum with anterior margin greenish yellow ( Fig. 18I ). Body ventrally with dark brown stripes ( Fig. 18J ). Male genitalia ( Fig. 5A–D ). Pygophore with dorsal rim shallowly excavated, slightly convex in the middle ( Fig. 5A ). Superior process of genital cup laminar, oblique, short, tapering to the base, and adjacent to dorsal rim; visible in dorsal view ( Fig. 5A–C ). Paramere golf club like, elongated, laterally bent; inner margin with carina ending close to the apex of the posterior lobe; posterior lobe somewhat developed and rounded distally; anterior lobe developed and rounded; outer margin black and thick ( Fig. 5B–C ). Proctiger with tufts of dense and long setae along lateral margins separated dorsally by narrow bridge; posterior face pentagonal, slightly swollen laterally ( Fig. 5B–D ). Ventral rim median excavation widely open with expansions acuminated, large, surpassing level of posterolateral angles in ventral view; expansions with a tuft of setae; bottom of median excavation with a small central concavity ( Fig. 5D ). Female genitalia ( Fig. 5E ). Valvifers 8 subrectangular, posterior margin almost straight; margins black; inner angles reaching basal third of valvifers 9; inner margins divergent from the middle of the plate. Valvulae 9 exposed. Comments. See comments of H. clavatum , additionally H. cristatus has the posterior lobe of the paramere rounded distally ( Fig. 5B ) and H. clavatum more acuminated ( Fig. 3B ). Etymology. Name refers to the keel-like superior process of the genital cup ( crista : crest) Distribution ( Fig. 21A ). BRAZIL : Pará , Mato Grosso , Rondônia .