Cyrea jackie 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 : 67-68

54. Cyrea jackie Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.8 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except head with clypeus black; pronotum black except lateral 1/6 yellow; elytron black with 3 yellow spots, basal spot long, sinuate, oblique from near scutellum nearly to outer middle of elytron, discal spot small, irregularly triangular, apical spot large, transversely rectangular ( Fig. 299 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite black, metafemur brown; abdomen dark brown except lateral 1/3 yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about twice a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on elytron, separated by a diameter or less medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus slightly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 4 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin slightly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 2/5 of prosternum, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and coarse, dense punctures; ventrites 2-3 with coarse, dense punctures medially, punctures finer laterally, ventrites 4-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex weakly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, slightly asymmetrical, slender, sides parallel to apical 4/5, curved to rounded apex in apical 1/5; paramere Pvl, lower margin widely produced in apical 1/2, lower margin curved upward to rounded apex ( Fig. 300, 301 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, slender, apex truncate, outer arm wider and slightly longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 302, 303 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Elytron of paratype with 2 spots, basal spot not sinuately straight from near scutellum onto apical declivity, spot absorbing the discal spot.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) C. Jordao, S. Paulo, 17.X.1959, J. Halik, 13470. ( USNM) . Paratype; 1, ( Brazil) C. Jordao, S. Paulo, 9.X.1959, J. Halik 13469 ( USNM) .

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Remarks. The two male type specimens have slightly differing elytral color patterns, both patterns unique within the genus. They are considered the same species because all other characters are identical, including male genitalia, and they were collected at the same locality.

Figures

Figures 289-303. Cyrea spp. 289-293) Cyrea minnie. 289) Habitus. 290) Phallobase ventral. 291) Phallobase lateral. 292) Sipho. 293) Enlarged siphonal apex. 294-298) Cyrea claudia. 294) Habitus. 295) Phallobase ventral and lateral. 296) Sipho. 297) Enlarged siphonal apex. 298) Female genitalia. 299-303) Cyrea jackie. 299) Habitus. 300) Phallobase ventral. 301) Phallobase lateral. 302) Sipho. 303) Enlarged siphonal apex.