Cyrea suturella (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 : 128-129

117. Cyrea suturella (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera suturella Mulsant, 1853: 76 .

Hyperaspis suturella: Crotch 1874: 216 ; Korschefsky 1931: 197; Blackwelder 1945: 448; Gordon, 1987: 27.

Description. Female lectotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.2 mm; body oval, convex. Color yellow except pronotum mostly yellowish brown with anterolateral angle broadly yellow; scutellum dark brown; elytron with suture very narrowly dark brown from base to apex ( Fig. 645 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite black; abdomen with basal 4 ventrites dark brown medially, remainder of abdomen yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than to twice a diameter, punctures as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by about a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter medially, becoming larger and nearly contiguous toward lateral margin. Clypeus strongly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded. Epipleuron narrow, not descending externally, weakly grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin smooth; sponda shallow. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated apically, nearly parallel, convergent before prosternal base, connected to base by single carina. Metaventrite without median setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded, extended to apical margin of ventrite at middle, then broadly forward to lateral 1/5 of ventrite. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule lost ( Fig. 646 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Brazil.

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

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Specimens examined. The lectotype.

Remarks. Cyrea suturella resembles both C. spinalis and C. pseudospinalis in dorsal color, but lacks the strongly emarginate clypeal apex of the latter and the wide, outwardly descending epipleuron of the former.

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.