Cyrea katie 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 : 97-98

84. Cyrea katie Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.5 mm, width 2.1 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head and pronotum alutaceous, slightly shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum black with narrow anterior and lateral borders yellow, apex of black area entire, not emarginate; elytron black with 5 small yellow spots, humeral spot triangular, median lateral spot elongate oval, discal spot narrowly oval, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 465 ); 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 about as large as 1.5 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to twice a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures smaller than on elytron medially, separated by 1 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 6 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin rounded, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, feebly grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with weak oblique angle, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined at middle of prosternum. 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, long pubescence and small, dense punctures; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex rounded. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, symmetrical, sides smoothly rounded and slightly convergent from base to rounded apex; paramere Psc, wide, same width from base to apex, apex rounded ( Fig. 466, 467 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/6, basal capsule distinctly sclerotized, inner arm long, narrow, apex bifid, outer arm widest at base, narrowed toward apex, apex with small projection on inner and outer margin, wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 468, 469 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Brasil, Sellow, Hist.-Coll. ( Coleoptera ) Nr. 4428, Hyperaspis spec. var.?., Zool. Mus. Berlin. ( ZMHB).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Other specimens. Five additional specimens are considered as possibly C. katie . Two of these bearing the same labels as the type specimen are females, one lacks an abdomen and one lacks a head and pronotum. One male has a single distinctly toothed protibia which would place it in Brachiacantha , but the opposite protibia lacks a tooth. These specimens are property of the ZMHB. Two other specimens labeled “ Brasil, S. Bocaina 1600 m, S. J. Barreiros S.P., XI-1967, Alvarenga e Seabra, Colegao m. Alvarenga”( DZUP) are probably C. katie , but differ sufficiently from the holotype so as not to be designated as paratypes.

Remarks. Cyrea katie is similar to C. lucille , especially by the male genitalia. But the former species has much smaller elytral spots, the humeral spot is not connected to other lateral spots, and the central pronotal black area is more extensive.

Figures

Figures 453-469. Cyrea spp. 453-458) Cyrea laurie. 453) Habitus. 454) Phallobase ventral. 455) Phallobase lateral. 456) Sipho. 457) Enlarged siphonal apex. 458) Female bursal cap, apical strut, and spermathecal capsule. 459-464) Cyrea lucille. 459) Habitus. 460) Phallobase ventral. 461) Phallobase lateral. 462) Sipho. 463) Enlarged siphonal apex. 464) Female genitalia. 465-469) Cyrea katy. 465) Habitus. 466) Phallobase ventral. 467) Phallobase lateral. 468) Sipho. 469) Enlarged siphonal apex.