Hyperaspis drechseli, Gordon & González, 2011

Gordon, Robert D. & González, F. Guillermo, 2011, Additions to the Hyperaspis Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) fauna of South American, descriptions of nine new species, and recognition of Hyperaspis pectoralis Crotch as a valid species, Insecta Mundi 2011 (160), pp. 1-20 : 7-8

Hyperaspis drechseli , new species

( Figure 70-80 )

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.1 mm, width 1.6 mm. Body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, slightly shiny, pronotum slightly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color black except head yellow; pronotum yellow with large, basomedian black macula extended 5/6 distance to apical pronotal border, macula not reaching lateral border, anterolateral angle emarginated with yellow; elytron black with lateral and apical margins narrowly yellow, yellow apical border widened ( Fig. 70-73 ); propleuron, epipleuron, legs yellow; abdomen dark brown with narrow lateral and apical border yellow. Head punctures small, nearly invisible, separated by less than to 3 times a diameter; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by less than to a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter; punctures on metaventrite larger than on elytron, separated by about a diameter, becoming coarser laterally, contiguous or nearly so; punctures on basal abdominal ventrite small medially, separated by less than to twice a diameter, punctures on ventrites 2-6 fine, separated by about twice a diameter. Clypeal apex deeply emarginate, clypeus and frons joined at abrupt angle. Epipleuron narrow, slightly grooved medially, slightly descending externally, femoral depresssions deep. Antenna with 11 articles ( Fig. 80 ). Protibia narrow, not flanged. Prosternum with intercoxal carinae widely separated at apex, strongly convergent toward base, joined just before base, connected to base by single stem. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite arcuate, slightly flattened in median 1/3 along posterior margin of ventrite, rounded 7/8 distance to lateral margin ( Fig. 74 ). Fifth ventrite broadly, weakly emarginate apically; 6 th ventrite broadly emarginate apically. Genitalia with basal lobe nearly as long as paramere, weakly sinuate, apex rounded, with rounded lateral projection; paramere slender, basal 2/3 wider than apical 1/3, apex ventrally hooked ( Fig. 77-79 ); sipho long, slender, with apical membranous area, basal capsule with inner arm long, straight, apically knobbed, outer arm short, wide, basal border weakly emarginate ( Fig. 75, 76 ).

Female. Not known.

Type material. Holotype male: Paraguay, Paraguari, Sapucay , S25º 42' W58º 08', 22-23/X/2004 Leg. Ulf Drechsel. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Hyperaspis drechseli has a color pattern similar to that of H. uninotata Gordon and Canepari to which it goes in the key to species, couplet 36 in Gordon and Canepari (2008), but H. drechseli has the outer elytral ring of yellow only on the lateral and/or apical borders, while H. uninotata has the anterior

border also yellow. Another similar species is H. unimaculosa , described above, but H. drechseli is smaller, has the male 6 th ventrite distinctly emarginate apically, and very different male genitalia.

Etymology. The species is named for the collector of the holotype

Figures

Figure 70-80. Hyperaspis drechseli. 70-73) Habitus views. 74) Abdomen. 75-79) Male genitalia. 75) Sipho. 75) Enlarged siphonal apex. 77-78) Lateral and ventral views of phallobase. 79) Enlarged view of basal lobe. 80) Antenna.