taxonID	type	description	language	source
7F001329FF91FF805122FB06FD00F98C.taxon	description	Figs 1 – 3	en	Duarte-de-Mélo, Jefferson, Basílio, Daniel S., Moura Lima, Iracilda M., Almeida, Lúcia M. (2024): New species and identification key to species of Pseudoazya (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Azyini). Zoologia (e 23058) 41: 1-8, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23058, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-4689.v41.e23058
7F001329FF91FF805122FB06FD00F98C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species. Azya trinitatis Marshall, 1912 (original designation). Diagnosis. Pseudoazya is a Neotropical genus that resembles Azya Mulsant, 1850 by the similar external morphology, but differing by the length range from 2.11 to 2.65 mm and by short, flat prosternum with intercoxal process not elevated or ridged. In Azya the length range from 2.90 to 4.40 mm and by the intecoxal process of prosternum elevated.	en	Duarte-de-Mélo, Jefferson, Basílio, Daniel S., Moura Lima, Iracilda M., Almeida, Lúcia M. (2024): New species and identification key to species of Pseudoazya (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Azyini). Zoologia (e 23058) 41: 1-8, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23058, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-4689.v41.e23058
7F001329FF91FF825322FACDFBB7FAF5.taxon	description	Figs 1, 3 https: // zoobank. org / 170 EAB 97 - 4 AC 3 - 431 D-B 0 D 7 - D 1 E 46 E 188 ED 8 Diagnosis. Pseudoazya massayo sp. nov. resembles P. boliviana by one oval spot in each elytral disc and yellowish clypeal apex. Pseudoazya massayo sp. nov. can be distinguished from the latter by bluish iridescence in the elytra and spots; penis capsule with inner arm almost as long as wide; and apex of penis sinuous. Pseudoazya boliviana has greenish iridescence in the elytra, except on spots area; penis capsule with inner arm twice longer than wide; and apex of penis membranous. Description. Male. Holotype. Length 2.48 mm, width 2.17 mm. Body dark, with light setae, oval, convex, two times longer than elytral height (Fig. 1 A, C, D). Dorsal tegument shiny, iridescent, with setae and punctations (Fig. 1 A). Elytra iridescence with two spots, one on each elytron, formed by dark setae (Fig. 1 A, C). Head. Dorsal surface smooth, with slightly greenish dull glow, without iridescence. Antennae and mouthparts yellowish. Punctations with the same size and distant from each other by less than a diameter of a punctuation (Fig. 1 B, C). Thorax. Pronotum with color similar of the head. Pronotal punctations with the same size and distant from each other by, at least, a diameter of a punctation. Ventral surface black, coxae and medial area of epipleura brownish. Prosternal punctation distant from each other by, at least, a diameter of the punctation. Mesosternal punctations in smaller number and size than the prosternal ones. Metasternal punctations with irregular size, distant from each other by, at least, a diameter of punctuation in ventral area, and by less than a diameter on the lateral area. Hipomera and epipleura with deep fovea to reception of femoral apex. Epipleura with small sparse puntactions. Mesosternum about half the longitudinal length of the prosternum (Fig. 1 A – D). Elytra. Each elytron with an oval spot with dark setae on discal area. Spot oblique to the sutura, extending up to 2 / 5 of the sutural length, with anterior half next, and posterior half distant to the sutural margin. Sutural margin with only light setae along its entire length. Punctations bigger and denser than in the pronotum, distant from each other by less than a diameter of the punctuation (Fig. 1 A, D). Abdomen. Ventrites yellowish. Punctations small and sparce on ventrite I; dense and distant from each other by, at least, a diameter of the punctation on medial area of ventrites II – IV; denser on ventrite V than the anterior ones. Ventrite VI hidden by ventrite V, emarginated (Fig. 1 E). Genitalia. Tegmen 2.3 times longer than wide. Penis guide 3 / 4 of the length of parameres, with rounded sides in ventral view, slightly larger on medial area than on the base, apex acute. Parameres with sides narrowing gradually from the base to the rounded apex, with short setae along the margins, not extending beyond the height of the penis guide. Penis capsule with inner arm almost as long as wide, apex rounded, slightly angulated, and outer arm with convergent sides, covered by a membrane, 2.5 times longer than wide, with the same length as the inner arm. Penis apex bifid, sinuous (Fig. 1 G – I). Female. Similar to male, except by ventrite VI, not emarginate (Fig. 1 F). Coxites subtriangular, with rounded apex, twice longer than wide (Fig. 1 J). Spermatheca apex as narrower as the ramus, slightly widened at the base of the cornu, narrowing to the apex; seven times longer than wide (Fig 1 K). Type Material. HOLOTYPE: Alagoas “ Maceió-AL \ 9 - IV- - 1991 - Lima, I. M. M ” “ folhas de \ Cordyline sp. \ c / diaspidÍdeos ”, [DZUP / 131915]; PARATYPES: Pernambuco “ BRASIL, PE, Fernando de \ Noronha, Boldró \ 3 ° 51 ’ 30 ” S – 32 ° 25 ’ 50 ” W ”; “ 20 - 27. ii. 2020 \ J. A. Rafael & M. S. Rafael ” “ PFN- 20 - 28. ii. 20 \ Alojamento \ em coqueiro ”, 1 specimen, [INPA]; “ Brasil, Pernambuco, \ Fernando de Noronha, \ Boldró, 20 - 28. ii. 2020, \ manual, Grossi, Rafael, \ Limeira-de-Oliveira legs. ”, 5 specimens, “ 2 ♂ ”; “ 3 ♀ ”, [CERPE]; Alagoas “ Ipioca, Maceió-AL \ 18 / 01 / 96 \ Lima, I. M. leg. ”, “ Em: Aspidiotus destructor \ Em: \ Coqueiro ”; 9 specimens, [DZUP 131924, 131925, 131927, 131928, 131929, 131930, 1 ♂, 131931,131932, 131934]; “ Brasil, Alagoas, \ Maceió \ 02 / III / 1991 \ I. M. M. Lima leg.; “ Diaspididae ”, [DZUP 131921]; Bahia “ São Felipe-Ba \ Citros \ M. branca, pulgão e \ Ortezia ”; “ Azyini ”, [DZUP 327086]. Distribution. Brazil: Alagoas, Pernambuco (Fig. 3). Etymology. The name Pseudoazya massayo sp. nov. is from the Tupi-guarani, an indigenous language. It was the indigenous name of the municipality of Maceió, capital of the state of Alagoas, and place of origin of part of the type material. The name means “ waterlogged land ”, in reference to a large mangrove area of the city. Biological data. Pseudoazya massayo sp. nov. was collected inhabiting coconut trees, Cocos nucifera L. (Arecaceae), and preying on Aspidiotus destructor Signoret, 1869 (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Additionally, this species was found on Citrus sp. (Rutaceae) and on Cordyline sp. (Asparagaceae), where it fed on diaspidids.	en	Duarte-de-Mélo, Jefferson, Basílio, Daniel S., Moura Lima, Iracilda M., Almeida, Lúcia M. (2024): New species and identification key to species of Pseudoazya (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Azyini). Zoologia (e 23058) 41: 1-8, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23058, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-4689.v41.e23058
7F001329FF93FF875321FAEEFCFAFA91.taxon	description	Figs 2, 3 https: // zoobank. org / 9 ED 3086 C- 3604 - 4302 - 80 C 2 - 92 EABAD 89 A 51 Diagnosis. Pseudoazya mirabilis sp. nov. is similar to P. nana, P. gnoma and P. pusilla, by sharing one spot on the discal area of the elytra. It differs from: P. pusilla by the longitudinal rows of large elytral punctations; from P. gnoma by the iridescence of the elytra; and from P. nana by longitudinal rows of punctations beyond the spot area, also by iridescent and violaceous spot. Differs from all other species of Pseudoazya by the sinuous inner area of the apex of the penis. Description. Female. Holotype. Length 2.11 mm, width 1.84 mm. Body dark, with whitish setae, oval, convex, to times longer than elytral height (Fig. 2 A, C, D). Dorsal tegument shiny, iridescent, with punctations; one iridescent, violaceous spot formed by dark setae in the central area of elytra (Fig. 2 A). Head. Dorsal surface greenish; dull glow. Antennae and mouthparts yellowish. Punctations with the same size and distant from each other, by more than a diameter of a punctuation (Fig. 2 B, C). Thorax. Pronotum with color and punctations similar of the head. Ventral surface black; coxae, trocanters and femora, brownish. Lateral area of pro, meso and metasternum with punctuation distant from each other by less than one diameter of the punctuation; metasternum punctations wider in the lateral area. Epipleura with punctuations sparse on base and dense on apex. Hipomera and epipleura with fovea to reception of femoral apex. Mesosternum about 2 / 3 of longitudinal length of prosternum (Fig. 2 A – D). Elytra. Punctations denser than in the head and pronotum, with irregular size and distance, being separated by less than a diameter. Longitudinal rows of wide punctations from suture to outer elytral margin (Fig. 2 A, D). Abdomen. Ventrites brownish to yellowish. Punctations of ventrite I with the same size than the mesosternum. Punctations of the other abdominal areas sparse, separated by two diameters or more, denser in the ventrite V. Ventrite VI not emarginate (Fig. 2 F). Genitalia. Coxites subtriangular, rounded apex, three times longer than wide. Spermatheca apex narrower than the base, five times longer than wide (Fig. 2 J – K). Male. Similar to female, except by ventrite VI hidden by ventrite V, emarginated (Fig. 2 E). Tegmen two times longer than wide; penis guide half of the length of parameres, wider in the base and sharp in the apex; parameres with base in ventral view with basal half narrow and apical wide and rounded, lobed, three times wider than the base, with setae in all apical margin of parameres (Fig. 2 G, H). Penis capsule with inner arm 1.4 times longer than wide, curved, with an emargination at the base of penis tube, assuming the shape of a semicircle, and outer arm two times wider than long; penis apex bifid, with sinuous inner area (Fig. 2 I). Type material. HOLOTYPE: “ Brasil. Pernambuco, \ Camaragibe, PE 027, Km 14, \ 1 - 30. vi. 2018, 140 m, - 7.929 ºS, \ - 35.038 ºW, P. C. Grossi ”, “ ♀ ”, [DZUP 246596]. PARATYPE: “ Brasil. Pernambuco, \ Camaragibe, PE 027, Km 14, \ 1 - 30. vi. 2018, 140 m, - 7.929 ºS, \ - 35.038 ºW, P. C. Grossi ”, “ ♂ ”, [CERPE]. Etymology. The name Pseudoazya mirabilis sp. nov. alludes to the overall appearance of the species, which is remarkable. Geographic distribution. Brazil: Pernambuco (Fig. 3). Remarks. Only two specimens from Pseudoazya mirabilis sp. nov. are currently known. The female specimen was selected as the holotype because the male specimen is teneral.	en	Duarte-de-Mélo, Jefferson, Basílio, Daniel S., Moura Lima, Iracilda M., Almeida, Lúcia M. (2024): New species and identification key to species of Pseudoazya (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Azyini). Zoologia (e 23058) 41: 1-8, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23058, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-4689.v41.e23058
