Cyrea heidi 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 : 73

60. Cyrea heidi Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.2 mm, width 2.3 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head slightly alutaceous, weakly shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with large, brown, rounded basomedian macula extended about 5/6 distance to anterior pronotal margin, not projected medially, macula with apex arcuate; elytron brown with 3 large yellow spots, all spots narrowly connected except scutellar spot discrete, humeral spot irregularly connected to apical spot along lateral margin of elytron, scutellar spot triangular, discal spot triangular, apical spot transversely oval (Fig. 332); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite brownish yellow; abdomen yellow except median portions of ventrites 1-3 faintly yellowish brown. Head punctures fine, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron medially, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. 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, grooved, weakly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin weakly arcuate, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibial margin (Fig. 333). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/5 of prosternum, connected to base with single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex. Ventrites 1-3 with dense, long pubescence and coarse, dense punctures; ventrites 4-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 4/5 as long as paramere, slender, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base to abruptly rounded apex; paramere Pvl, wide, widest at middle, lower margin somewhat truncate medially, strongly curved to rounded apex (Fig. 334, 335); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apex truncate, outer arm curved, slightly narrower and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate (Fig. 336, 337).

Female. Similar to male except pronotum entirely yellow. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, wide, slightly narrowed from base to apex, apex of cornu rounded; bursal cap oval with 2 faintly sclerotized arms, apical strut short, slender (Fig. 338).

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Argentina) Colonia Progreso, B. Vista (Ctes.), 22/iv/64, s/citrus, ex. Coleccion M. Viana ARG.033301, Coleccion J.E. Barriga Chile 076980. ( JEBC) . Paratype; 1, Argentina, prov. Misiones , Posadas, Martires, 14 ago 1965, leg. D. Carpintero, Coleccion J.E. Barriga Chile 128665 ( JEBC) .

Geographical distribution. Argentina.

Remarks. Cyrea heidi has a distinctive dorsal color pattern unlike any other in the devillii group. It is an unusual species in that the male pronotum has a large, basomedian macula, while the female pronotum is immaculate. In other species of the genus that pattern is reversed.