Cyrea emmae (Crotch) Canepari & Gordon & Hanley, 2016

Canepari, Claudio, Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2016, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: Systematic revision of the genera Cyrea Gordon and Canepari and Tiphysa Mulsant (Hyperaspidinae: Brachiacanthini), Insecta Mundi 2016 (486), pp. 1-180 : 129-130

118. Cyrea emmae (Crotch) , new combination

Hyperaspis emmae Crotch, 1874:215 ; Korschefsky 1931: 188; Blackwelder 1945: 447; Gordon 1987: 27.

Redescription. Female holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.8 mm; body oval, convex. Color dark brown except head with obscure, dark reddish brown area medially; pronotum with anterolateral angle broadly yellow; scutellum dark brown; elytron yellow bordered with dark brown, suture broadly dark brown, brown area slightly widened on apical declivity ( Fig. 647 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso-, and metaventrite black; abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than to twice a diameter, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or more medially, becoming larger and denser toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin with strong bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, not descending externally, weakly grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with slight oblique angle, angle less than 1/2 width of tibia, outer margin smooth; sponda shallow. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated apically, convergent to basal 2/3, connected to base by single carina. Metaventrite without median setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded, extended to apical margin of ventrite at middle, then broadly forward to lateral 1/4 of ventrite. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, bent medially; bursal cap with 2 short, sclerotized arms, apical projection long, spatulate in lateral view ( Fig. 648 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Brazil.

Type depository. UMZC (holotype).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Specimens examined. 1. The holotype.

Remarks. Cyrea emmae is a boldly colored species with strong contrast between the yellow elytra and dark brown bordering colors giving it a vittate appearance. It is another Cyrea species having a pronotum with a distinctly bordered base.

Figures

Figures 643-648. Cyrea spp. 643-644) Cyrea lucy. 643) Habitus. Cyrea trina. 644) Habitus. 645-646) Cyrea suturella, 645) Habitus. 646) Female genitalia. 647-648) Cyrea emmae. 647) Habitus. 648) Female genitalia.