Cyrea ormanceayi (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 : 91-92

79. Cyrea ormanceayi (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera ormanceayi Mulsant, 1850: 621 .

Hyperaspis ormanceayi: Crotch1874: 221 ; Korschefsky 1931:193; Blackwelder 1945:448.

Cleothera distinguenda Mulsant, 1850: 622 .

Hyperaspis distinguenda: Crotch 1874: 221 ; Korschefsky 1931:187; Blackwelder 1945:447; Gordon 1987: 28. NEW SYNONYM.

Description. Male. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.4 mm; body elongate, rectangular, sides parallel. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum slightly alutaceous, weakly shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color black except head yellow, pronotum yellow with long, narrow black basomedian macula extended 2/3 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with apical border narrowly emarginate with yellow; elytron with 5 yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot small, triangular, mediolateral spot small, projected inward, apical spot transversely oval with apical border weakly emarginate ( Fig. 436 ); ventral surface with antenna, mouthparts, hypomeron, and legs yellow; abdominal ventrites 3-6 dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to about a diameter; metaventral punctures smaller than on elytron, separated by a diameter or less medially, separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus emarginate apically, 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 narrow, not grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at base of prosternum. 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 emarginate with lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 2/3 as long as paramere, externally symmetrical, oval, sides slightly curved, narrowed to rounded apex in apical 1/3; paramere Psc, narrowed from base to rounded apex, lower angle of apex produced ( Fig. 437, 438 ); sipho curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae at apical 1/6, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, apically emarginate, outer angle projected, inner angle with apex rounded, outer arm slightly wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 439, 440 ).

Female. Similar to male except head yellow with clypeus and lateral 1/4 of frons brown, pronotum with basomedian macula extended 5/6 distance to anterior pronotal margin. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, basal 1/4 wide, cornu with bulbous apex; bursal cap rectangular, with 3 sclerotized arms, apical strut long, widened from middle to spatulate apex.

Variation. Length 1.7 to 2.4 mm, width 1.3 to 1.7 mm. Female head may have only clypeus brown, size of basomedian pronotal macula slightly variable, males may have apical emargination of macula shallow, abdomen varies from typical to entirely brown, or medially black with outer 1/3 dark or light brown.

Type locality. Of ormanceayi , Colombia ; of distinguenda , Colombia.

Type depository. Of ormanceayi, ZMHB (lectotype here designated); of distinguenda, MNHL (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Central America ( Costa Rica), and South America. Colombia, Trinidad, Venezuela.

Specimens examined. 348. Specimens of C. ormanceayi are frequently collected from Trinidad to Colombia. ( BMNH) ( CNC) ( MNHL) ( USNM) ( ZMHB).

Remarks. This species has genitalia closely similar to several other species in the tessulata group, but small size and oblong, parallel sided body shape distinguish it from those species. Gorham (1894) listed specimens of “ distinguenda ” from Panama, and specimens of this species from Costa Rica have been observed in the course of the current study.

A female in the ZMHB labeled “55700/ Ormanceayi Muls Columb (pale green label)/Hist.Coll. ( Coleoptera ), Nr. 55700, Hyperaspis Ormanceayi Muls., Columb. Coll. Schaum, Zool. Mus. Berlin (dark green paper)/ SYNTYPUS, Cleothera ormanceayi Mulsant, 1851 , labeled by MNHUB 2008” is designated the lectotype of C. ormanceayi . Mulsant (1850) had specimens from the collections of Germar and Schaum and Trobert. Specimens from the latter collection cannot be found. A male type specimen of C. distinguenda in the MNHL labeled “Carthagena, Lebas, Cleothera distinguenda ” is designated the lectotype of that species.

Figures

Figures 436-452. Cyrea spp. 436-440) Cyrea ormanceayi. 436) Habitus. 437) Phallobase ventral. 438) Phallobase lateral. 439) Sipho. 440) Enlarged siphonal apex. 441-446) Cyrea fasciata. 441) Habitus. 442) Phallobase ventral. 443) Phallobase lateral. 444) Sipho. 445) Enlarged siphonal apex. 446) Female genitalia. 447-452) Cyrea jeanne. 447) Habitus. 448) Phallobase ventral. 449) Phallobase lateral. 450) Sipho. 451) Enlarged siphonal apex. 452) Female genitalia.