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- <p><b><i>Valdasoides marisae</i> P. Ferreira & L. Ferreira, new species (Figs. 8-B, C)</b></p><p><b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>V. marisae</i> n.sp. was distinguished from <i>V. bahiensis</i> by comparing the original description (Carvalho 1989). <i>V. marisae</i> overall color dark brown; antennal segment I and pronotum, dark brown; and apical portion of the clavus whitish. <i>V. bahiensis</i> overall color brown; antennal segment I reddish brown; calli and mesoscutum areas pale; and clavus dark.</p><p><b>Description.</b> Male (Holotype) measurement in Table 2. <i>Body</i> shiny, subparallel-sided, fuscous to black with yellowish and red areas; length 3x width; vestiture formed by short simple recumbent golden setae. Head vertical between antennal fossa; front black, smooth and flat; vertex black, concave, with deep median groove with two pale spots converging into longitudinal white stripe; neck-like posterior region of head, smooth, shiny black; clypeus convex, delimited posteriorly, dorsally dark; mandibular plate, maxillary plate, and gula reddish; labium yellowish with reddish tones, reaching hind coxae; segments I and II thicker than rest, and segment II with enlarged apex; eyes located in median lateral region of head occupying most of side of head, far from anterior margin of pronotum; antennal fossa located above mandibular-maxillary plate suture; antennae long, extending to or beyond cuneus; segment I, cylindrical, smooth shiny black, strongly thickened with convex inner margin, tapering towards ends; segment II pale darkening to apex, thin, III, and IV darker, extremely thin. <i>Pronotum</i> trapeziform, shiny black, 2x wider than long; pronotum collar well defined by posterior groove, mostly rugose, and laterally reddish; calli convex, glabrous, smooth; disco of pronotum slightly convex, coarsely rugose-punctate; lateral margin rounded, marginated only in calli region; posterior margin concave between humeral angles. Propleura shiny black, coarsely rugose-punctate. Mesoscutum yellowish, flat, and exposed. Scutellum black with apex whitish, flat, rugose, and glabrous. <i>Hemelytron</i> shiny, coarsely rugose-punctate, somewhat parallel-sided; with black background, apex of clavus yellowish; membrane fuliginous with pale area close to apex of cuneus; cuneus 2x longer than wide. Legs with black anterior femurs. Hind leg with coxae reddish yellow; femur long and clavate, surpassing the apex of the abdomen, with the yellowish base and a little round red mark in the apical third; tibia and tarsus both thin, yellow, longer than the femur. Abdomen smooth, shiny, with a red background and dark areas; vesture with semi-adpressed and straight simple golden setae. Pygophore dark brown with golden bristles. The male genitalia of the unique holotype were not dissected.</p><p><b>Etymology.</b> Species named in honor of the first author’s wife, Marisa Santana Fiuza, who has been a great, loving partner to him on his many entomological journeys for 37 years.</p><p><b>Plant Associations.</b> Unknown</p><p><b>Distribution.</b> Brazil (Espírito Santo *: Domingos Martins).</p><p><b>Type material.</b> Holotype 1♂, Domingos Martins, Mata Pico do Eldorado, Coord. 200 22’ 17’’ S/ 400 39’ 29’’ W, Col. M. T. Tavares e equipe, 3-10/XII/2004.</p><p><b>Remarks.</b> The MNRJ fire destroyed the only one holotype specimen, which represented a single species of the genus <i>Valdasoides</i>. Despite the absence of the hind legs in the original holotype description of <i>V. bahiensis</i>, it is possible that they may have diagnostic characteristics to differentiate between the two species, such as: Coxa coloration; femur length and shape, surpassing or not the apex of the abdomen, with the base color and with or not a little round red mark in the apical third; colors and thickness of the tíbia and tarsus, and if the length of both exceeds the length of the femur.</p>