Cyrea flavocalceata (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 : 131

120. Cyrea flavocalceata (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera flavocalceata Mulsant, 1850: 648 .

Hyperaspis flavocalceata: Korschefsky 1931: 189 ; Blackwelder 1945: 447; Gordon 1987: 28.

Redescription. Female holotype. Length 3.4 mm, width 2.7 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum weakly alutaceous, shiny, elytron shiny, lacking alutaceous sculpture. Color black except pronotum with lateral 1/5 yellow, yellow macula wide anteriorly, narrowed toward base, inner margin “ragged;”; elytron entirely black ( Fig. 651 ); venter of head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black, epipleuron dark brown, mouthparts, legs brownish yellow except femora brown in basal 7/8; abdomen reddish yellow. Head punctures large, dense, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; metaventral punctures larger than on abdomen, separated by less than a diameter medially, becoming larger, nearly contiguous in lateral 1/4. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus short, wide, as long as about 4 eye facets, slightly angled forward, apical and posterior margins strongly rounded, apex round, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides weakly rounded, anterior angle abruptly rounded, posterior angle broadly rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin weakly curved; sponda nearly invisible. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, slightly convergent, joined at basal 5/6, with single stem extended to prosternal margin. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, rounded along border, then rounded forward to lateral 1/5 of ventrite. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, slightly curved, cornu enlarged; bursal cap with 2 faint outer arms, apically rounded, apical strut short, widened from base to apex, apical 2/3 flattened in lateral view.

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Brazil.

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

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

Specimens examined. 1. The lectotype.

Remarks. Cyrea flavocalceata is similar to C. nigripennis because of the entirely black dorsal surface, but the latter species is smaller, the black dorsal surface has a distinct bluish cast, and the eye canthus is narrow, angled forward, and brown. Cyrea flavocalceata has an extremely unusual eye canthus in that it is wide, rounded, and yellow in color, unlike that of any known species of Cyrea except C. crotchi which has an almost identically shaped canthus.

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.