Tiphysa egae Crotch

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 : 134-135

Tiphysa egae Crotch

Tiphysa egae Crotch, 1874: 210 ; Korschefsky, 1931: 208; Blackwelder, 1945: 449; Gordon, 1987: 26; Milléo & Almeida, 2003: 280 .

Red escription. Female paralectotype. Length 4.0 mm, width 3.5 mm; body oval, convex. Color black except clypeus and apical 1/4 of frons triangularly yellow; pronotum dull black with metallic bluish green tint, anterior and lateral borders narrowly yellow; elytron shiny black with metallic green tint; ventral surface with head black, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black medially, reddish yellow laterally, legs and abdomen reddish yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture as large as 3 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by less than to twice a diameter; elytral punctation single, sparse, punctures smaller than on pronotum, separated by 3 to 4 times a diameter; metaventral punctures 3 or 4 times as large as on pronotum, nearly absent medially, separated by 3 to 4 times a diameter laterally. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle broadly rounded, surface with dense, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 8 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides feebly rounded, basal and anterior angles rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron wide medially, grooved, strongly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia broadly flanged, flange evenly arcuate, wider than remainder of protibia, outer margin smooth sponda deep, slightly wider than flange. Carinae on prosternal process pronounced, widely spaced apically, convergent toward base, joined at apical 2/3 of prosternum, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite without median setal tuft. Abdomen with small pores present on each side of middle between ventrites 2-3, 3-4; postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite straight in basal 1/3, extended to apical margin of ventrite at middle, rounded in apical 2/3, extended to lateral 1/5 of ventrite. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule evenly rounded; bursal cap with 3 arms, outer arms slender, unmodified, apical strut present ( Fig. 662 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Length 4.0 to 4.9 mm. Dorsal color tint varies from greenish black to bluish black.

Type locality. “Egae” ( Brasil, Amazonas, Tefé).

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

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Specimens examined. 2. Type specimens. ( UMZC).

Remarks. See remarks under T. plumbea . Questions remain as to the correct identity of each of these two species, questions that will only be resolved with discovery of additional material.

Figures

Figures 655-662. Tiphysa spp. 655-661) Tiphysa plumbea 655) Habitus. 656. Protibia.657) Maxilla.658) Phallobase ventral. 659) Phallobase lateral. 660) Sipho. 661). Female genitalia. 662) Tiphysa egae 662) Female genitalia.