Cyrea ustulata (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 : 125-126

113. Cyrea ustulata (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera ustulata Mulsant, 1850: 566 .

Hyperaspis ustulata: Crotch 1874: 216 ; Korschefsky 1931:199; Blackwelder 1945: 448.

Hyperaspis camelina Crotch, 1874: 217 ; Korschefsky 1931:185; Blackwelder 1945: 446; Gordon 1987: 27. NEW SYNONYM.

Description. Male lectotype. Length 2.1 mm, width 1.7 mm; body oval, convex. Color yellow except pronotum with irregular, basomedian black area extended 2/3 distance to anterior margin; scutellum black; elytron with large black macula extended from base to apical 3/4, black area emarginated laterally on anterior border ( Fig. 630 ); ventral surface with prosternum, meso- and metaventrite yellowish red; abdomen yellowish red. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to about 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by several times a diameter medially, becoming larger and separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin smooth; sponda shallow ( Fig. 631 ). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent before prosternal base, single carina extended to base. Metaventrite without median setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, flattened along base, then rounded forward to lateral 1/4 of ventrite; ventrites 1-4 with sparse, long pubescence, punctures sparse medially becoming dense laterally; 5th ventrite weakly depressed medially in apical 1/2, apical margin weakly emarginate medially, surface densely punctate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, apical margin slightly emarginate, densely pubescent, surface smooth, glabrous. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, wide, apex split, asymmetrical; paramere Psc, wide ( Fig. 632, 633 ); sipho slender, strongly curved, without obvious lateral alae, basal capsule small, inner arm long, narrow, apically rounded on inner margin, outer arm shorter than inner arm, with very small accessory piece, basal border broadly emarginate ( Fig. 634, 635 ).

Female. Similar to male except female genitalia with spermathecal capsule strongly curved. ( Fig. 636 ).

Variation. None observed.

Type locality. Of ustulata , Colombia ; of camelina , Brazil, Santarem.

Type depository. Of ustulata, MNHP (lectotype here designated); of camelina, UMCZ (holotype).

Geographical distribution. Known only from the type localities ( Colombia, Brazil).

Specimens examined. 4. Colombia. The lectotype of ustulata . Brazil. The holotype of camelina .

Remarks. This species has an unusual diagnostic dorsal color pattern, and also has the head punctures widely spaced, about 5 times the diameter of a puncture.

A type specimen in the MNHP labeled “Type/coll. Mniszech/ ustulata Muls. Colombia. Type” is designated as the lectotype of ustulata . There are also 2 MNHP paralectotypes, male and female, bearing the same data.

Figures

Figures 625-642. Cyrea spp. 625-629) Cyrea nigripennis. 625) Habitus. 626) Phallobase ventral. 627) Phallobase lateral. 628) Sipho. 629) Enlarged sipho apex. 630-636) Cyrea ustulata. 630) Habitus. 631) Protibia. 632) Phallobase ventral. 633) Phallobase lateral. 634) Sipho. 635) Enlarged siphonal apex. 636) Female genitalia. 637-642) Cyrea moritzi. 637) Habitus. 638) Protibia. 639) Phallobase ventral. 640) Phallobase lateral. 641) Sipho. 642) Enlarged siphonal apex.