Cyrea andicola (Kirsch) 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 : 19-20

4. Cyrea andicola (Kirsch) , new combination

Hyperaspis (Cleothera) andicola Kirsch, 1883: 212 .

Cleothera andicola: Weise 1899: 269 .

Hyperaspis andicola: Korschefsky 1931:184 ; Blackwelder 1945: 446.

Description. Male. Length 5.0 mm, width 4.0 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum slightly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color black except head mostly yellow, base of yellow area widely triangular anterior to vertex, pronotum mostly black except narrow anterior border, diamond shaped median spot, and anterolateral angle yellow; elytron with 5 large yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot irregularly rectangular, mediolateral spot projected inward, narrowly connected to apical spot, scutellar spot triangular, narrowly connected to discal spot, discal spot elongate oval, narrowly connected to irregularly rectangular apical spot ( Fig. 17 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black; abdominal ventrites 1-5 dark brown medially, ventrite 6 and lateral portion of ventrites 1-4 reddish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as 3 eye facets; pronotal punctures slightly larger than head punctures, separated by less than to twice a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to about a diameter; metaventral punctures as large as on elytron, separated by a diameter or less medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 5 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 with trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, strongly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide oblique angle, outer margin straight, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle ( Fig. 18 ). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, parallel, joined at basal 1/3 of prosternum, not connected to prosternal base. 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 coarse punctures sparse medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in apical 1/3, with small cusp on each side of middle, apex weakly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, with small cusp on each side of middle, apex deeply emarginate with lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex deeply emarginate with lateral angle strongly produced. Genitalia with basal lobe about 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides parallel but slightly “pinched” medially, apex emarginate; paramere Unm, long, widened in apical 1/2 ( Fig. 19, 20 ); sipho curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, wide, apex slightly curved, outer arm as long as and wider than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 21 ).

Female. Similar to male except head with obliquely transverse yellow macula on each side of middle anterior to vertex. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule elongate, slender, basal 1/4 slightly wider than remainder, cornu with rounded apex; bursal cap rounded, with 2 long, outer, sclerotized arms and short trace of inner arm, apical strut long, widened from middle to spatulate apex ( Fig. 22 ).

Variation. Length 4.4 to 5.0 mm, width 3.3 to 4.0 mm. Male head color varies from that described above to having the clypeus narrowly black and small black spots on apex of frons, female pronotum variable from typical to having the yellow maculae joined in single, curved macula, elytron highly variable from typical to almost entirely reddish yellow to black with sutural border and elongate, black, mediolateral spot.

Type locality. “ Nova Granada ” ( Colombia).

Type depository. SNSD (holotype).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Specimens examined. 6. Colombia. Cnd. (Cundinamarca), Guasca; Cund., Paramo de Siberia. ( SNSD) ( USNM) ( ZMHB).

Remarks. This species is similar to C. tredecimguttata in size, dorsal coloration, and form of female genitalia. It differs in having a slightly more elongate form, different coloration of head and pronotum, male 5th and 6th abdominal ventrites with small cusps, and male genitalia very different from those of C. tredecimguttata . Abdominal cusps are uncommon within Cyrea , and are somewhat similar to those possessed by C. alma .

The holotype in the SNSD is labeled “ Colombia, Stübel (green paper)/43-0-3 (green paper)/ Cleothera andicola K./ Hyperaspis andicola Kirsch (green paper)/Typus. (red paper)/ Hyperaspis (Cleothera) andicola Kirsch , det. R. Korschefsky 1944/Staatl.Museum für Tierkunde.Dresden.”

Figures

Figures 17-33. Cyrea spp. 17-22)Cyrea andicola. 17) Habitus. 18) Protibia. 19) Phallobase ventral. 20) Phallobase lateral. 21) Sipho. 22) Female genitalia. 23-28). Cyrea jo. 23) Habitus. 24) Protibia. 25) Phallobase ventral. 26) Phallobase lateral. 27) Sipho. 28) Enlarged siphonal apex. 29-33). Cyrea eileen. 29) Habitus. 30) Phallobase ventral and lateral. 31) Sipho. 32) Enlarged siphonal apex. 33) Female genitalia.