Cyrea similaris (Mader) 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 : 75-76

63. Cyrea similaris (Mader) , new combination

Hyperaspis (Cleothera) similaris Mader, 1957: 84 .

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.2 mm; body oval, convex. Color yellow except pronotum with narrow, basal, medially emarginate brown macula; elytron with lateral and sutural margins narrowly dark brown, 4 large brown spots arranged in two rows, one lateral and one near suture, anterior sutural spot joined to dark sutural margin ( Fig. 349 ); ventral surface with apicomedian portion of prosternum, metaventrite, median portion of abdominal ventrites 1- 4 dark brown, mesoventrite reddish yellow medially, dark reddish brown laterally. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than to twice a diameter; elytral punctures slightly smaller than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by several times a diameter medially, becoming larger and separated by less than to twice a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 4 eye facets, angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin smooth; sponda shallow. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, converging before prosternal base, single carina extended to base. Metaventrite without median setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, rounded along base, then rounded forward to lateral 1/4 of ventrite; ventrites 1-4 with sparse, short pubescence, punctures sparse medially becoming dense laterally; 5th ventrite weakly depressed medially in apical 1/2, apical margin weakly emarginate medially, surface densely punctate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, apical margin nearly truncate, densely pubescent, surface smooth, glabrous. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, slen- der, asymmetrical; paramere Pvl, wide ( Fig. 350, 351 ); sipho slender, strongly curved, without obvious lateral alae, basal capsule small, inner arm long, narrow, apically rounded on inner margin, outer arm shorter than inner arm, with very small accessory piece, basal border broadly emarginate ( Fig. 352, 353 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 2.7 to 2.8 mm; width 1.9 to 2.2 mm (from Mader, 1957).

Type locality. Bolivia, Yungas La Paz, Irupana (Siquiljara).

Type depository. MHNS.

Geographical distribution. Known only from the type locality in Bolivia.

Specimens examined. 1. The holotype.

Remarks. Mader (1957) described this species from two specimens, one of which he retained in his collection and not examined here. The dorsal color pattern is distinctive for C. similaris and closely resembles that of C. ornaticollis Weise , a Venezuelan species. Cyrea ornaticollis , as the name indicates, has a highly patterned pronotum quite unlike the mostly unadorned pronotum of C. similaris . Male genitalia are completely unlike in these two species, placing them in different groups.

Figures

Figures 339-353. Cyrea spp. 339-343) Cyrea januarii. 339) Habitus. 340) Phallobase ventral. 341) Phallobase lateral. 342) Sipho. 343) Enlarged siphonal apex. 344-348) Cyrea spinalis. 344) Habitus. 345) Phallobase ventral. 346) Phallobase lateral. 347) Sipho. 348) Enlarged siphonal apex. 349-353) Cyrea similaris. 349) Habitus. 350) Phallobase ventral. 351) Phallobase lateral. 352) Sipho. 353) Enlarged siphonal apex.