Cyrea tredecimguttata (Mulsant) 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 : 18-19

3. Cyrea tredecimguttata (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera tredecimguttata Mulsant, 1850: 599 .

Hyperaspis tredecimguttata: Crotch 1874: 221 ; Korschefsky 1931:198; Blackwelder 1945: 448; Gordon 1987: 27.

Description. Male. Length 4.6 mm, width 3.7 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head and pronotum slightly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color black except head yellow, pronotum yellow with long black basomedian macula extended to anterior pronotal margin, macula with elongate, apically triangular yellow spot medially, lateral 1/3 of pronotum yellow; elytron with 5 large yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot irregularly rectangular, mediolateral spot projected inward, scutellar spot broadly oval, discal spot elongate oval, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 12 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark brown; abdominal ventrites 1-4 dark brown medially, ventrites 2-6 and lateral portion of ventrites 1-4 reddish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as 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 1 to 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures as large as on elytron, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 8 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin slightly curved, basal margin with trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, not grooved, strongly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined just before base of prosternum, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and coarse punctures sparse medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in apical 1/3, apex strongly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex deeply emarginate with lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 1/2 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base to apical 5/6, apex emarginate; paramere Unm, long, sides nearly parallel to rounded apex ( Fig. 13, 14 ); sipho curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, wide, apex slightly curved, outer arm shorter and slightly wider than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 15 ).

Female. Similar to male except head yellow with clypeus and narrow border on inside of eye black, pronotal anterolateral angle with rounded yellow macula. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule elongate, slender, basal 1/4 slightly wider than remainder, cornu with rounded apex; bursal cap rounded, with 2 long, outer sclerotized arms and short trace of inner arm, apical strut long, widened from middle to spatulate apex ( Fig. 16 ).

Variation. Length 4.0 to 5.0 mm, width 3.3 to 4.2 mm. Pronotum of some females lack a median yellow spot on the dark, basomedian macula, elytral spots subject to expansion and connection to other spots.

Type locality. Colombia.

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

Geographical distribution. Colombia, Ecuador.

Specimens examined. 13. Colombia. Magdalena, San Lorenzo, S. Santa Marta ; Sant. (Norte de Santander), Bucaramanga ; Norte de Santander, 30 km. S. Chinacota . Ecuador. Quito, S. Domingo. ( USNM) .

Remarks. Cyrea tredecimguttata is a large, boldly marked species readily distinguishable from its congeners. Few other species approach it in size, and those few have quite different dorsal color patterns.

Figures

Figures 1-16. Cyrea spp. 1-6) Cyrea mattie. 1) Habitus. 2) Phallobase ventral. 3) Phallobase lateral. 4) Sipho. 5) Enlarged siphonal apex. 6) Female spermathecal capsule. 7-11) Cyrea ida. 7) Habitus. 8) Phallobase ventral. 9) Phallobase lateral. 10) Sipho. 11) Enlarged siphonal apex. 12-16). Cyrea tredecimguttata. 12) Habitus. 13) Phallobase ventral. 14) Phallobase lateral. 15) Sipho. 16) Female genitalia.