Cyrea languida (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 : 119-120

107. Cyrea languida (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera languida Mulsant, 1850: 563 .

Hyperaspis languida: Crotch 1874: 216 ; Korschefsky 1931:191; Blackwelder 1945: 447.

Description. Male. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.5 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head weakly alutaceous, slightly shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with 5 pale brown spots, 1 spot on each side of middle on basal margin, 1 median spot on basal margin, 1 oblique spot at middle of pronotum on each side ( Fig. 595 ); elytron entirely yellow, immaculate; ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites pale reddish brown; abdomen yellow. Head punctures fine, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by a diameter or less medially, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus feebly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, 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 weakly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron wide, grooved, slightly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, arcuate, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibial margin ( Fig. 596 ). Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent to basal 1/3 of prosternum, joined at basal 1/3, 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 rounded throughout, extended forward at apex. Ventrites 1-2 with dense, long pubescence and fine, sparse punctures, ventrites 3-6 with dense, short, pubescence and fine, dense punctures; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/ 3, apex slightly emarginate, nearly truncate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex slightly emarginate, nearly truncate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 2/3 as long as paramere, wide, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base to rounded, slightly emarginate apex; paramere Psc, wide in basal 2/3, narrowed to rounded apex in apical 1/3 ( Fig. 597, 598 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long slen- der, apex obliquely truncate, outer arm curved, wider and shorter than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply emarginate ( Fig. 599, 600 ).

Female. Similar to male except genitalia with spermathecal capsule elongate, slender, about same width throughout, apex of cornu rounded; bursal cap oval, with 3 small sclerotized arms, apical strut slender, straight, apex not enlarged ( Fig. 601 ).

Variation. Length 2.6 to 3.1 mm, width 2.2 to 2.6 mm.

Type locality. Colombia.

Type depository. MNHP (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Colombia, Brazil, Central America.

Specimens examined. 47. Colombia. Cauca, Pereira ; Val (Valle del Cauca) Palmira . Venezuela. Aragua, Ocumare de la Costa ; Guarjira Valley ; Maracay , El Limon ; Puerto Cabello. ( USNM) ( ZMHB) .

Other specimens. 2. ( Brazil) Corumba, Matto Grosso. ( CAS)

Remarks. This species is distinctive because the dorsal surface is entirely yellow except for some pale brown pronotal spots. Male abdominal ventrites have the least apical emargination of any species examined, the apex being almost truncate.

A specimen of Cleothera languida in the MNHP collection labeled “Type/Coll. Mniszech” is designated as the lectotype.

Figures

Figures 590-607. Cyrea spp. 590-594) Cyrea lillie. 590) Habitus. 591) Phallobase ventral. 592) Phallobase lateral. 593) Sipho. 594) Enlarged siphonal apex. 595-601) Cyrea languida. 595) Habitus. 596) Protibia. 597) Phallobase ventral. 598) Phallobase lateral. 599) Sipho. 600) Enlarged siphonal apex. 601) Female genitalia. 602-607) Cyrea arrowi. 602) Habitus. 603) Phallobase ventral. 604) Phallobase lateral. 605) Sipho. 606) Enlarged siphonal apex. 607) Female genitalia.