Cyrea vicki 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 : 104

91. Cyrea vicki Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.0 mm; body elongate, somewhat parallel sided, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except head black with yellow clypeus, pronotum with long, narrow black basomedian macula extended 7/8 distance to anterior pronotal margin, apex of macula briefly, narrowly indented with yellow at middle, lateral 1/4 of pronotum yellow; elytron black with 4 large yellow spots, humeral spot absent, median lateral spot rounded, not projected inward, scutellar spot triangular, nearly reaching oval discal spot, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 503 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black; abdomen dark brown, slightly paler toward lateral margin. 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 less than to twice a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated less than to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures as large as on elytron medially, separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter, becoming larger and separated by a diameter or less toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 4 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, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with weak oblique angle, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond angle ( Fig. 504 ). Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, short pubescence and fine, sparse punctures; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite not depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed at apex, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe more than 3/4 as long as paramere, slightly asymmetrical, sides parallel in basal 5/6, curved to rounded apex in apical 1/6; paramere Psc, slightly narrowed in apical 1/3 ( Fig. 505, 506 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/5, basal capsule with inner arm short, angled forward, apically rounded, outer arm slightly curved, about as wide and as long as inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 507, 508 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Ecuador, 700m, Pichincha Prov., Sto. Domingo Col., VIII-4-1956, on vegetation, G.H. Dieke. ( USNM).

Geographical distribution. Ecuador.

Remarks. This species is distinctive within the tessulata group because of 4 yellow spots on each elytron; nearly parallel sided body form; and black male head with yellow clypeus.

Figures

Figures 503-518. Cyrea spp. 503-508) Cyrea vicki. 503) Habitus. 504) Protibia. 505) Phallobase ventral. 506) Phallobase lateral. 507) Sipho. 508) Enlarged siphonal apex. 509-513) Cyrea carla. 509) Habitus. 510) Phallobase ventral. 511) Phallobase lateral. 512) Sipho. 513) Enlarged siphonal apex. 514-518) Cyrea tara. 514) Habitus. 515) Phallobase ventral. 516) Phallobase lateral. 517) Sipho. 518) Enlarged siphonal apex.