Canepari, 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 : 20-21

5. Cyrea jo Canepari and Gordon, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.4 mm, width 2.7 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except head yellow with black vertex and base of frons, anterior border of black vertex arcuate, narrowly curved anteriorly along inner eye margin; pronotum mostly black with narrow anterior border yellow, small, oval median yellow spot, and anterolateral angle narrowly yellow; elytron black with 5 yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot oval, scutellar spot round, mediolateral spot narrow, projected inward, discal spot somewhat rectangular, apical spot large, transversely oval, apical border of spot broadly, weakly emarginate ( Fig. 23 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black; abdomen black except ventrites 5-6 dark brown. Head punctures small, 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 3 times 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, larger, denser 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 curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, slightly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with oblique angle narrow, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda not extended beyond oblique angle ( Fig. 24 ). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/6 of prosternum, joined to base by single carina. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with weak setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrites 1-2 with sparse, long pubescence and coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 3-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate, nearly truncate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex deeply emarginate with slight median projection, lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 2/3 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent in basal 4/ 5, curved to abruptly rounded apex in apical 1/5; paramere Unm, wide, narrow at base, widened to rounded apex ( Fig. 25, 26 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, narrow, apex rounded, outer arm longer and wider than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly, widely emarginate ( Fig. 27, 28 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 3.0 to 3.4 mm, width 2.4 to 2.7 mm.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, Oroque, Santander del Norte , 8-VI-1965, J.&B.Bechyne leg. ( MIZA) . Paratype; 1, same data as holotype ( MEUNT) .

Remarks. This is a somewhat distinctive species because the dorsal color pattern is not matched by any known species of this group. Only males are known, so the female color pattern may differ. Male genitalia are also distinctive for C. jo because the paramere is very wide from base to rounded apex, unlike those of other known species in this group.

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.