Cyrea samantha 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 : 88-89

75. Cyrea samantha Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.7 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum weakly alutaceous, feebly shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, black basomedian macula extended 3/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, with apical border entire, and with obliquely oval yellow spot on each side of middle; elytron with dark brown border on basal, sutural, and apical margins, with 4 dark brown spots, humeral spot large, oval, connected to basal margin anterior to humeral callus, discal spot rectangular, connected to sutural border, mediolateral spot obliquely oval, narrowly connected to apical spot, apical spot large, obliquely oval, nearly reaching sutural margin (Fig. 416); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark reddish brown; abdomen brownish yellow except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-4 brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures about as large as on elytron, separated by about a diameter 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 6 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 wide, grooved, weakly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/8 of prosternum, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite flattened along posterior ventrite margin, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and large punctures sparse medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex weakly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex slightly emarginate with lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex feebly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly curved, convergent from base to rounded apex; paramere Psc, slightly widened from base to apex, lower angle of apex produced (Fig. 417, 418); sipho curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae at apical 1/6, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apically emarginate, outer arm about as wide and as long as inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate (Fig. 419, 420).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, Aposentos , NST 1936, Murillo No 41. ( USNM).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Remarks. Cyrea samantha has a unique dorsal color pattern by which it may be recognized. Male genitalia are typical of the tessulata group, not particularly distinctive.