Cyrea compta (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 : 42-43

27. Cyrea compta (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera compta Mulsant, 1850:594 .

Hyperaspis compta: Korschefsky 1931:186 ; Blackwelder 1945:446.

Description. Male lectotype. Length 2.9 mm, width 2.4 mm; body rounded, somewhat oval, convex. Color yellow except pronotum with wide, short, black basomedian macula, basomedian macula with median anterior projection, projection divided into slender, curved extension on each side of middle; elytron black with 2 yellow maculae, lateral margin unevenly bordered with yellow from humeral angle to apex, median yellow vitta unevenly extended from base near scutellum to apical yellow area ( Fig. 147 ); ventral surface with meso-, metaventrite, and abdomen brown. Head punctures small, separated by about a diameter, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by about a diameter, elytral punctures smaller than on pronotum, separated by about twice a diameter; metaventral punctures small, widely spaced medially, larger, narrowly spaced laterally. Clypeus slightly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 4 eye facets long, angled forward, wide, rounded throughout, pale 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 emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin arcuate, smooth ( Fig. 148 ). Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent, joined at base. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with 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 punctures; ventrites 3-6 with setal tufts on each side of middle, punctures fine; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex widely, shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite deeply depressed medially, apex widely, deeply emarginate with small tubercle on each side of emargination. Genitalia with basal lobe slender, slightly more than 1/2 as long as paramere, sides parallel from base to obliquely truncate apex, paramere Pav, widened from base to rounded apex, upper margin with apically forked “ear” ( Fig. 149, 150 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apex rounded, outer arm narrower and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, abruptly emarginate ( Fig. 151, 152 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Colombia.

Type depository. MNHP (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Specimens examined. 1. The lectotype. ( MNHP)

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern of C. compta is not dissimilar from that of some other Cyrea species , but is distinctive within the emiliae group. A combination of dorsal color pattern and abdominal setal tufts on each side of male ventrites 3-6 will characterize this species.

A type specimen in the MNHP labeled “Type/Coll. Mniszech./ compta Muls. Colombia. Type.” is designated as the lectotype.

Figures

Figures 134-152. Cyrea spp. 134-139) Cyrea colleen. 134) Habitus. 135) Protibia. 136) Phallobase ventral.137) Phallobase lateral. 138) Sipho. 139) Enlarged siphonal apex. 140-146) Cyrea crotchi. 140) habitus. 141) Protibia. 142) Phallobase ventral. 143) Phallobase lateral. 144) Sipho. 145) Enlarged siphonal apex. 146) Female genitalia. 147-152) Cyrea compta. 147) Habitus. 148) Proleg. 149) Phallobase ventral. 150) Phallobase lateral. 151) Sipho. 152) Enlarged siphonal apex.