Cyrea collaris (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 : 103-104

90. Cyrea collaris (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera collaris Mulsant, 1850:627 .

Hyperaspis collaris: Korschefsky 1931:186 ; Blackwelder 1945:446.

Description. Male. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.4 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum slightly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with black basomedian macula extended 5/6 distance to anterior pronotal margin, middle of macula with obliquely oval yellow spot on each side, anterolateral angle with yellow area 1/4 width of pronotum; elytron black with 5 large yellow spots, humeral spot triangular, scutellar spot irregularly rectangular, median lateral spot triangular, projected inward, discal spot oblique from near suture anterolaterally toward humerus, each end of spot acute, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 497 ); ventral surface entirely black except legs yellow with meso- and metafemur mostly 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 a diameter or less, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to slightly more than a diameter; metaventral punctures as large as on elytron medially, separated by a diameter or less, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 8 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with slight oblique angle, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, parallel to basal 1/3 of prosternum, joined at base, 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 medially, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, short pubescence and coarse, dense punctures; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite not depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite depressed at apex, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite coarsely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent in basal 5/6, curved to rounded apex in apical 1/6; paramere Psc, about same width from base to apex ( Fig. 498, 499 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/5, basal capsule heavily sclerotized, inner arm short, narrow, apex bifid, outer arm straight, slightly wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 500, 501 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black with large, median, yellow triangular macula on frons and vertex, pronotum with black basomedian macula extended to pronotal apex. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, slightly widened basally, narrowed to middle, cornu slightly widened; bursal cap rectangular, with 3 arms, apical strut large, long, apically widened ( Fig.502 ).

Variation. Length 2.6 to 3.1 mm, width 2.0 to 2.4 mm. Size of oblique, median yellow spots on pronotum variable from large to small, elytron highly variable with humeral and median lateral spots often connected, discal spot sometimes narrowly connected to both scutellar and apical spots, and discal spot occasionally expanded so that it is connected to all remaining elytral spots.

Type locality. Colombia.

Type depository. BMNH (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Specimens examined. 15. Colombia. Cundinamarca, Choachí; Guasca-Gacheta. ( USNM) ( ZMHB).

Remarks. In spite of the somewhat variable elytral color pattern, C. collaris is easily recognized by that pattern, pronotum with 2 median, oblique yellow spots, and densely, rather coarsely punctured ventral surface.

Mulsant listed the Buquet and Melly collections as the sources for his type specimens. The Melly material cannot be located, but the Buquet collection is in the BMNH and we have selected that type specimen as the lectotype.

Figures

Figures 487-502. Cyrea spp. 487-491) Cyrea elsie. 487) Habitus. 488) Phallobase ventral. 489) Phallobase lateral. 490) Sipho. 491) Enlarged siphonal apex. 492-496) Cyrea sue. 492) Habitus. 493) Phallobase ventral.494) Phallobase lateral. 495) Sipho. 496) Enlarged siphonal apex. 497-502) Cyrea collaris. 497) Habitus. 498) Phallobase ventral. 499) Phallobase lateral. 500) Sipho. 501) Enlarged siphonal apex. 502) Female spermathecal capsule.