Cyrea petropolitana (Crotch) 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 : 76-77

64. Cyrea petropolitana (Crotch) , new combination

Hyperaspis petropolitana Crotch, 1874: 223 ; Korschefsky 1931: 194; Blackwelder 1945: 448; Gordon 1987: 28.

Description. Female lectotype. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.7 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head slightly alutaceous, feebly shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color dark brown except lateral 1/3 of pronotum yellow; elytron with 2 yellow spots, discal spot large, occupying median 1/3 of elytron, apical spot small, transversely elongate ( Fig. 354 ); ventral surface with mouthparts, prothoracic hypomeron, and legs except basal 3/4 of femur yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture as large as 4 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than to twice a diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by less than to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less medially, becoming very large and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, strongly angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin with faint trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, flat, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin smooth; sponda barely visible. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, converging before prosternal base, single carina extended to base. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, rounded along base, then rounded forward to lateral 1/4 of ventrite. Genitalia with short spermatheca slightly curved at middle; bursal cap with 2 arms, median strut apically paddle shaped ( Fig 358 ).

Male. Similar to female except head yellow. Abdominal ventrite 5 broadly, feebly emarginate apically; ventrite 6 broadly, deeply emarginate apically, laterally angulate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 3/4 as long as paramere, narrow, sides strongly convergent, apex acute; paramere wide, ventral margin lobed, apex obliquely truncate ( Fig. 355, 356 ); sipho long, slender, curved in basal 3/4, apical 1/4 recurved, basal capsule with inner arm long, slender, apically truncate, outer arm about as long as inner arm, slender, with accessory piece, basal border broadly, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 357 ).

Variation. None observed.

Type locality. “Petropolis” ( Brazil).

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

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Specimens examined. 2. Brazil. Petropolis; Rio de Janeiro (type series). ( BMNH) ( UMZC) .

Remarks. This species has a dorsal color pattern similar to a few other Brazilian species, but none of these match the type specimens exactly, either in color pattern or male genitalia.

The female lectotype is in the Crotch collection (UMZC). The male paralectotype in the BMNH is labeled”Type (orange bordered disc)/3750 (handwritten)/Fry Rio Jan/Fry Coll. 1905.100/Petropolitana (handwritten)/ Hyperaspis Petropolitana Crotch , Brazil, Rio J. Type (handwritten).”

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.