Cyrea lucy Canepari and Gordon, 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 : 127

115. Cyrea lucy Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Holotype, male?. Length 3.8 mm, width 2.1 mm; body elongate, slender, nearly parallel sided. Dorsal surface with head slightly alutaceous, shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color reddish yellow except elytron yellow apically, lateral and posterior margins narrowly bordered with black, sutural margin with wider black border enlarged in basal 1/2 ( Fig. 643 ); ventral surface with head dark brown; venter with prosternum, mesoventrite brown. Head punctures coarse, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture about as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures smaller than head punctures, separated by less than to twice a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin weakly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, feebly grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, basal tooth absent, sponda strongly extended beyond protibial margin. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined at base of prosternum.

Male. Unknown?

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype; Uruguay, Artigas, Arroyo de la Invernada , 18-II-1954, C. S. Carbonell, ex Coleccion M. Viana ARG. 022023, Coleccion J.E. Barriga, Chile 072091. ( JEBC).

Geographical distribution. Uruguay.

Remarks. Cyrea lucy is represented by one badly damaged specimen, possibly a male, with most of venter, including abdomen, lost. The elongate, nearly parallel sided form and very distinctive elytral color pattern distinguish this species from other known species of Cyrea . Sex of the holotype is not determined because the abdomen is not available, but the head is uniformly pale, without any dark maculae, so it is possibly a male.

Figures

Figures 643-648. Cyrea spp. 643-644) Cyrea lucy. 643) Habitus. Cyrea trina. 644) Habitus. 645-646) Cyrea suturella, 645) Habitus. 646) Female genitalia. 647-648) Cyrea emmae. 647) Habitus. 648) Female genitalia.