Cyrea ornaticollis (Weise) 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 : 83-84

71. Cyrea ornaticollis (Weise) , new combination

Cleothera ornaticollis Weise 1902:173 .

Hyperaspis ornaticollis Korschefsky 1931:193 ; Blackwelder 1945:448.

Description. Male. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.4 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum weakly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, black basomedian macula extended 1/5 distance to anterior pronotal margin, apex of macula widely emarginate medially, with each end anteriorly projected, 2 black, comma shaped spots at middle of pronotum, 1 spot on each side of middle; elytron with sutural margin black, slightly wider in median 7/ 8, 4 black spots present, humeral spot widely elongate oval, discal spot small, connected to sutural border in apical 1/2 of elytron, posteromedian spot large, elongate oval (Fig. 392); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black; abdomen 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 a diameter or less, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to about 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures as large as on elytron, separated by less than to twice a diameter medially, becoming larger, separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus slightly emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 8 eye facets long, straight, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin straight, basal margin with trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron wide, slightly grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin curved, smooth, sponda extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined slightly anterior to middle of prosternum, single carina extended to prosternal base. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without 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 slightly depressed medially, apical margin feebly emarginate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, slightly depressed medially, apical margin weakly emarginate, angle on each side of emargination rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent from base to abruptly rounded apex; paramere Psc, sides slightly widened from base to rounded apex (Fig. 393, 394); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae at apical 1/6, basal capsule heavily sclerotized, inner arm short, wide, apex bifid, outer arm slightly wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border broadly shallowly emarginate (Fig. 395).

Female. Similar to male except head brown with large, yellow median spot in basal 1/2 of frons, pronotum with large, brown basomedian spot extended from basal margin to middle of pronotum spot with posterior margin triangularly projected medially. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, slightly narrower in median 1/3; bursal cap rectangular, with 3 sclerotized arms, apical strut elongate, widened from base to apex, bat shaped (Fig. 396).

Variation. Length 2.4 to 3.0 mm, width 1.8 to 2.4 mm. Male pronotum with mediobasal macula and median spot often connected, elytron with size of black spots variable, discal spot on suture sometimes large, square.

Type locality. Venezuela.

Type depository. ZMHB (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Venezuela.

Specimens examined. 6. Venezuela. Merida ; Tach (Tachira), San Antonio; Merida, Timotes. ( MIZA).( USNM) ( ZMHB) .

Remarks. Cyrea ornaticollis is distinguished from similar species by the unique dorsal color pattern, and unusually long, slender spermathecal capsule of the female genitalia.

The lectotype in the ZMHB is labeled “ Venezuela, second word illegible (green paper, handwritten/ ex.coll. J. Weise/TYPUS (pink paper) Cleothera ornaticollis m. (handwritten)/ SYNTYPUS Hyperaspis ornaticollis Weise, 1902 labeled by MNHB 2004 (red paper).”