Cyrea victoria (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 : 68-69

55. Cyrea victoria (Crotch) , new combination

Hyperaspis victoria Crotch, 1874:223 ; Korschefsky 1931:199; Blackwelder 1945:448; Gordon 1987:28.

Description. Male. Length 3.6 mm, width 2.6 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color reddish yellow except pronotum with long, wide basomedian macula extended 2/3 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula medially indented with deep yellow emargination nearly dividing macula; elytron black with 3 yellow spots, humeral spot small, triangular, basal spot large, irregularly rectangular from base near scutellum posteriorly to apical declivity, apical spot large, irregularly oval ( Fig. 304 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum reddish yellow, meso- and metaventrite dark brown; abdomen reddish yellow except median portions of ventrites 1-4 dark brown. Head punctures coarse, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as 3 eye facets; pronotal punctures smaller than head punctures, separated by less than to twice a diameter, elytral punctures smaller than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 4 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on head medially, separated by a diameter or less 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 4 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, 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 to basal 1/5 of prosternum, connected to base by single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite curved throughout, very slightly extended forward at apex. Ventrites 1-3 with sparse, short pubescence and coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 4-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 4/5 as long as paramere, narrow, asymmetrical, sides nearly parallel from base to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, wide, lower margin widely produced medially, apex rounded ( Fig. 305, 306 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, without lateral alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apex truncate, outer arm wider, longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 307, 308 ).

Female. Similar to male except head with clypeus brown and frons mostly black, apex of black area on frons triangularly emarginate, pronotum with basomedian macula extended to apical pronotal border, macula entire, without median yellow emargination. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, wide, about same width throughout except basal 1/4 slightly enlarged, apex of cornu rounded; bursal cap oval, with 2 sclerotized arms, apical strut long, widened from base to apex ( Fig. 309 ).

Variation. Length 3.2 to 3.6 mm, width 2.2 to 2.6 mm. Elytron with 2 reddish yellow spots, without humeral spot.

Type locality. Cayenne.

Type depository. UMZC (lectotype designated by Gordon, 1987).

Geographical distribution. Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Trinidad.

Specimens examined. 5. Brazil. Corumba, Matto Grosso. French Guiana. “Cayenne.” Guyana. Mazaruni-Potaro Dist., Kartabo Pt. Trinidad. Morne Bleu, 2700'. ( UMZC) ( USNM).

Remarks. Cyrea victoria is another large, distinctively marked species with an elytral color pattern similar to that of C. tamara . However, male genitalia place them in different groups. In addition to a distinctive dorsal color pattern, C. victoria differs from other similar appearing species by its distribution in northern South America as opposed to Andean countries.

Figures

Figures 304-321. Cyrea spp. 304-309) Cyrea victoria. 304) Habitus. 305) Phallobase ventral. 306) Phallobase lateral. 307) Sipho. 308) Enlarged siphonal apex. 309) Female genitalia. 310-315) Cyrea marcia. 310) Habitus. 311) Phallobase ventral. 312) Phallobase lateral. 313) Sipho. 314) Enlarged siphonal apex. 315) Female genital plates. 316-321) Cyrea tanya. 316) Habitus. 317) Phallobase ventral. 318) Phallobase lateral. 319) Sipho. 320) Enlarged siphonal apex. 321) Female genitalia.