Cyrea laurie 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 : 95-96

82. Cyrea laurie Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.8 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head and pronotum weakly alutaceous, slightly shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with brown basomedian spot deeply divided medially with yellow, lateral projecting arm of spot with reddish yellow “eyespot”, basomedian macula extended 3/4 distance to anterior pronotal border, macula with anterior margin divided medially with long anterior projection; elytron black with 5 large yellow spots, humeral spot weakly connected to discal spot, median lateral spot projected inward, discal spot oval, apical spot transversely oval with truncate anterior margin ( Fig. 453 ); ventral surface with 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 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to twice a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by less than to 2 times diameter. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 8 eye facets long, slightly 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, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia without oblique angle, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibia. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined at basal 1/8 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 weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, symmetrical, sides smoothly rounded and narrowed from base to rounded apex; paramere strongly Psc, short, wide, slightly widened medially, apex rounded ( Fig. 454, 455 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/6, basal capsule slightly sclerotized, inner arm short, narrow, with small, median projection, outer arm straight, wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 456, 457 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black with large, reddish yellow spot medially, pronotum with large, black median macula extended nearly to anterior pronotal border. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, basal 1/4 enlarged, widened, cornu enlarged; bursal cap narrowly rectangular, with 3

sclerotized arms, apical strut long, about as long as bursal cap, widened from base to spatulate apex ( Fig. 458 ).

Variation. Length 2.3 to 2.8 mm, width 1.6 to 2.0 mm. Female head color variable from that described above to having the central pale area reduced in size or with head entirely black. Male pronotum varies from mostly yellow with narrow, basomedian black spot, to entirely dark brown or black with median reddish yellow vitta.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, Valle de Medellin , on Crotolarias, FlGallego, M, Lett. 12.17’38, usnm #177 ( USNM) . Paratypes; 16, 2, same data as holotype ; 1, Medellin, Colombia, on citrus, June , 1945, F.L. Gallego ; 4, V. Medellin , en citrus, Agt. 1943 ; 1, V. Medellin , en citrus, Jun. 1943 Gallego ; 1, V. Medellin, en Raiza , Ago. 1944, Gallego ; 1, V. Medellin , en citrus, Feb. 1942, Gallego ; 2, V. Medellin , en citrus, Ene. 1943, Gallego ; Venecia (A), Ago. 1945, Colombia, Villavicencio , Meta, 2 Oct 1965, J. A. Ramos Collector. ( USNM) .

Other specimen. Armero, Colombia, Tol, 14. VI.40, Murillo No 86. ( USNM).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Remarks. This species is most similar to C. fasciata , but differs by having “eyespots” on the pronotum and has an apical elytral spot with a transverse apical border. See remarks under C. lucille .

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.