Cyrea castelnaudii (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 : 77-78

65. Cyrea castelnaudii (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera castelnaudii Mulsant, 1850: 559 .

Hyperaspis castelnaudi: Crotch 1874: 217 ; Korschefsky 1931:186; Blackwelder 1945: 446; Gordon 1987: 27.

Description. Male lectotype. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.7 mm; body oval, convex. Color yellow except pronotum reddish brown; elytron light brownish yellow with large, irregularly shaped dark brown spot on apical declivity ( Fig. 359 ). Genitalia with basal lobe 4/5 as long as paramere, sides narrowed from base to apical 3/4, apical 14 rounded, apex slightly notched on one side, paramere large, wide, lower margin projected at middle, truncate medially, obliquely angled to rounded apex ( Fig. 360, 361 ); sipho robust, abruptly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, apex obliquely truncate, outer arm longer and slightly wider than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal margin widely emarginate ( Fig. 362, 363 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Brazil, “Matto-Grosso.”

Type depository. MNHP (lectotype).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Specimens examined. 1. The lectotype.

Remarks. Mulsant (1850) did not state how many type specimens he had, but did list the MNHP as type repository. The specimen in the MNHP collection labeled “Museum Paris, Matto-Grosso, de/13-47/149/ Cleothera castelnaudii Muls. , auct. det.” is designated as the lectotype. No specimens other than the lectotype were available for examination.

Figures

Figures 354-368. Cyrea spp. 354-358) Cyrea petropolitana. 354) Habitus. 355) Phallobase ventral. 356) Phallobase lateral. 357) Sipho and enlarged siphonal apex. 358) Female genitalia. 359-363) Cyrea castelnaudii. 359) Habitus. 360) Phallobase ventral. 361) Phallobase lateral. 362) Sipho. 363) Enlarged siphonal apex. 364-368) Cyrea beatrice. 364) Habitus. 365) Phallobase ventral. 366) Phallobase lateral. 367) Sipho. 368) Enlarged siphonal apex.