Cyrea vivian 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 : 29-30

14. Cyrea vivian Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.1 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, feebly shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, narrow, black basomedian macula extended 2/3 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with apical margin deeply indented with yellow, projection on each side of indentation irregular; elytron with narrow, black sutural border from scutellum to apex, with 4 large, black spots present, humeral spot elongate, irregularly oval, discal spot elongate, rectangular, posteromedian spot on apical declivity irregularly oval, posterolateral spot obliquely oval, feebly connected to posteromedian spot ( Fig. 71 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black; abdomen yellowish brown except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-4 brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture slightly larger than 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 a diameter or less; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 2/3. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 8 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, slightly descending externally, deeply foveolate??? for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda extended beyond angle ( Fig. 72 ). Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/6 of prosternum, 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 flattened along posterior ventrite margin, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and large, coarse punctures medially, punctures becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex deeply emarginate with lateral angle abruptly rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex distinctly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides parallel from base to apex, apex obliquely truncate; paramere Pav, widened from base to rounded apex, upper margin with sclerotized projection, or “ear” slightly posterior to apex ( Fig. 73, 74 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, outer arm narrower and slightly longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 75, 76 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Paraguay, Caaguazú, Repatriacion , 22-I-2001. ( MNHNP).

Geographical distribution. Paraguay.

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is useful for identification among all Cyrea species , but is unique within the emiliae group.

Figures

Figures 65-82. Cyrea spp. 65-70) Cyrea trepida, 65) Habitus. 66) Phallobase ventral. 67) Phallobase lateral. 68) Sipho. 69) Enlarged siphonal apex. 70) Female genitalia. 71-76) Cyrea vivian. 71) Habitus. 72) Proleg. 73) Phallobase ventral. 74) Phallobase lateral. 75) Sipho. 76) Enlarged siphonal apex. 77-82) Cyrea roberta. 77) Habitus. 78) Phallobase ventral. 79) Phallobase lateral. 80) Sipho. 81) Enlarged siphonal apex. 82) Female genitalia.