Cyrea claudia Canepari and Gordon, 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 : 66-67

53. Cyrea claudia Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.0 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head smooth, shiny, pronotum slightly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, wide basomedian macula extended 5/6 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula projected medially, apex not indented with yellow, lateral borders sinuate; elytron black with 2 yellow spots, apical spot large, occupying most of anterior 1/2 of elytron, spot narrowly emarginate with black from base posterior to humeral callus, apical spot small, narrow, transversely oval ( Fig. 294 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black, metafemur dark brown; abdomen dark brown medially, yellowish brown laterally. Head punctures fine, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to twice a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter medially, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide oblique angle, outer margin weakly arcuate, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibial margin. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/5 of prosternum, connected to base with single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite slightly flattened medially, extended forward at apex. Ventrites 1-3 with sparse, long pubescence and coarse, dense punctures; ventrites 4-6 densely pubescent, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/ 3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate with lateral angle produced, apically rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, narrow, asymmetrical, sides parallel in basal 1/2, apical 1/5 curved to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, wide, lower margin produced, widely arcuate to obliquely truncate apex ( Fig. 295 ); sipho robust, curved in basal 7/8, apical 1/8 bent downward, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, slender, apex widened, truncate, outer arm curved, slightly wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply, widely emarginate ( Fig. 296, 297 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black with median yellow spot at base of frons, pronotum with black basomedian macula extended to anterior pronotal border. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, wide, about same width from base to apex except basal 1/4 slightly widened, apex of cornu rounded; bursal cap oval with 2 faintly sclerotized arms, apical strut short, narrow ( Fig. 298 ).

Variation. Length 2.5 to 2.6 mm, width 1.9 to 2.0 mm.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) V. Monte Verde, M. Gerais, 8.IX.1963, Halik 2272. ( USNM) . Paratype; 1, ( Brazil) C. Jordao, S. Paulo, 12.X.1954, Halik 13464 ( USNM) .

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern of this species is distinctive and is not repeated elsewhere within the genus.

Figures

Figures 289-303. Cyrea spp. 289-293) Cyrea minnie. 289) Habitus. 290) Phallobase ventral. 291) Phallobase lateral. 292) Sipho. 293) Enlarged siphonal apex. 294-298) Cyrea claudia. 294) Habitus. 295) Phallobase ventral and lateral. 296) Sipho. 297) Enlarged siphonal apex. 298) Female genitalia. 299-303) Cyrea jackie. 299) Habitus. 300) Phallobase ventral. 301) Phallobase lateral. 302) Sipho. 303) Enlarged siphonal apex.