Cyrea quinquenotata (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 : 85-86

73. Cyrea quinquenotata (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera quinquenotata Mulsant,1850:548 .

Hyperaspis quinquenotata: Crotch 1874:215 ; Korschefsky 1931:195; Blackwelder 1945:448.

Cleothera sexnotata Brèthes, 1925b:3 . NEW SYNONYM.

Hyperaspis sexnotata: Korschefsky 1931:196 ; Blackwelder 1945:448.

Description. Male. Length 3.1 mm, width 2.7; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, dark brown basomedian macula extended 1/6 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula widely emarginate with yellow medially, middle of emargination with short, dark brown projection, each end projected anteriorly, 2 dark brown, somewhat triangular spots present at middle of pronotum, 1 spot on each side of middle; elytron reddish yellow, sutural margin of elytron with narrow, dark brown border, border triangularly widened on apical declivity, 3 small spots present, humeral spot on callus round, discal spot broadly triangular, connected to sutural border, posterolateral spot transversely oval (Fig. 404); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark brown; abdomen reddish yellow except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-4 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 a diameter or less, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by less than a diameter. 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 curved, basal margin with trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron wide, grooved, descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin slightly curved, smooth, sponda extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined at basal 1/6, single carina extended to prosternal base. Metaventrite without trace of sparse setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without sparse setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite slightly flattened along posterior ventrite margin, extended forward at apex, ventrite coarsely punctured medially, with small, dense punctures laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite depressed medially, apical margin feebly emarginate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, depressed medially, apical margin weakly emarginate, angle on each side of emargination rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 2/ 3 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base nearly to apex, apex rounded with slight emargination on one side; paramere Psc, equal in width from base to rounded apex (Fig. 405, 406); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible lateral alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, wide, apex obliquely rounded, outer arm slightly narrower than and about as long as inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate (Fig. 407, 408).

Female. Similar to male except head with clypeus and apex of frons brown, pronotum with small black spot posterior to eye, median spots fused into triangular spot narrowly connected to median spot of basomedian macula. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule somewhat elongate, narrow, cornu narrowed in apical 1/6; bursal cap broadly oval, with 2 sclerotized arms, apical strut short, widened from base to spatulate apex (Fig. 409).

Variation. Length 2.4 to 3.2 mm, width 1.7 to 2.7 mm. Degree of fusion of pronotal spots varies greatly, background color of elytron varies from yellow to reddish yellow.

Type locality. Of quinquenotata , Brazil ; of sexnotata , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .

Type depository. Of quinquenotata, DEI (lectotype here designated); of sexnotata, BMNH (holotype).

Geographical distribution. Brazil, Surinam.

Specimens examined. 68. This is a frequently encountered species occurring in southern Brazil. ( BMNH) ( CMNH) ( DZUP) ( MNSP) ( USNM).

Remarks. Cyrea quinquenotata has a distinctive dorsal color pattern very similar to that of C. novemsignata , which has one more spot on each elytron. Cyrea quinquenotata has one spot on the apical declivity while the C. triacantha form has two spots. See remarks under C. novemsignata . Examination of the holotype of C. sexnotata Brethès indicated that it is the same species as C. quinquenotata . The type specimen of C. quinquenotat a in the DEI is labeled “ Brasil Schaum (handwritten)/Coll. Haag/ Syntypus (pink paper/5 notata Typ Mls. (handwritten)/coll. DEI Müncheberg.” Mulsant (1850) had specimens from several sources, specifically stating that the type was in the “Germar et Schaum” collection that was deposited in the ZMHB, but there are no type specimens there, so the single type specimen in the DEI is selected as the lectotype. A specimen in the BMNH is not labeled or designated a type, but bears the same blue disc with number “5171 as do the other BM Mulsant types from the Buquet collection. Mulsant (1850) listed his specimens as from “Dejean, Germar et Schaum, etc.”, the Buquet collection was probably included in the “etc.” (R. Booth, pers. comm.). The male holotype of C. sexnotata is labeled “Type (orange bordered disc)/type./ Rio de Janeiro, Wagner. 1903-180/ Cleothera sexnotata Brèthes (handwritten).” Brèthes specifically stated that he had one specimen of this species, the holotype.