Diagnosis of Calagasma Bergroth and Epipedus Spinola with description of Calagasma eclipsa sp. nov. and Epipedus rolstoni sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Carpocorini)
Author
Lupoli, Roland
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4170.2.6
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1175-5326
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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.