Cyrea octupla (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 : 130-131

119. Cyrea octupla (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera octupla Mulsant, 1853: 80 .

Hyperaspis octupla: Crotch 1874: 219 ; Korschefsky 1931: 193; Gordon 1987: 27.

Redescription. Female lectotype. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.3 mm; body oval, convex. Color yellow except anterior 1/2 of head dark brown; pronotum dark brown with narrow anterior border and lateral border yellow, lateral yellow area widened anterolaterally; elytron with lateral and sutural margins narrowly dark brown, sutural brown area widened on disc, 4 large, elongate brown spots arranged in two rows, first row across anterior 1/2 of elytron, second row across apical declivity, posteromedian spot somewhat triangular, anterior margin oblique ( Fig. 649 ); ventral surface with mouthparts yellowish brown, prosternum, meso-, and metaventrites black; median area of abdominal ventrites 1-4 dark brown, lateral 1/4 of ventrites yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture as large as 4 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than to twice a diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 2 to 4 times a diameter medially, becoming very large and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 8 eye facets, strongly angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin with faint trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia without oblique angle, outer margin smooth; sponda shallow. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent before prosternal base, single carina extended to base. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, rounded along base, then rounded forward to lateral 1/4 of ventrite. Genitalia with short, wide, strongly curved spermatheca; bursal cap with 2 arms, median strut apically paddle shaped ( Fig. 650 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Brasil, “Ste-Catherine” (Santa Catarina).

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

Geographical distribution. Known only from the type locality ( Brazil).

Specimen examined. 1. The lectotype.

Remarks. Cyrea octupla has a dorsal color pattern similar to that of C. noticollis , but the elytral spots are differently shaped, and females of C. noticollis always have a patterned pronotum, unlike the mostly dark brown pronotum of C. octupla . Many specimens from the state of Santa Catarina have been available, but thus far none have been C. octupla .

Figures

Figures 649-654. Cyrea spp. 649-650) Cyrea octupla. 649) Habitus. 650) Female genitalia. 651) Cyrea flavocalceata. 651) Habitus. 652-654) Cyrea sexguttata. 652) Habitus. 653) Proleg. 654) Female genitalia.