Cyrea colleen 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 : 40-41

25. Cyrea colleen Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.9 mm; body somewhat rounded, oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, wide, dark brown basomedian macula extended 1/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula deeply emarginate medially, with angulate anterior projection on each side of middle, small, pale brown projection on each side of middle extended from basomedian macula toward pronotal apex; elytron brown with 5 large yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot rectangular, scutellar spot slightly oval, mediolateral spot irregularly rounded, discal spot oval, apical spot transversely rectangular, anterior border of spot not emarginate ( Fig. 134 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite dark brown; abdomen yellow except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-3 yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture about as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to slightly more than twice a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by less than a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus slightly emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 4 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin straight, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, slightly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide flange, outer margin bisinuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle ( Fig. 135 ). Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated apically, convergent, joined at basal 1/6 of prosternum, connected to base by single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with small setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrites 1-2 with dense, short pubescence and coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 3-6 with long, dense pubescence throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex widely, shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, with cusp on each side of middle, apex weakly emarginate with rounded projection at middle of emargination. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex widely emarginate, lateral angle produced with large, slightly hooked projection. Genitalia with basal lobe about 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base to rounded apex; paramere Pav, widened from base to truncate apex, upper margin straight, with small, acute, sclerotized projection “ear” at anterolateral angle ( Fig. 136, 137 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm narrow, elongate, apex rounded, inner arm slightly longer than and as wide as inner arm, with accessory piece ( Fig. 138, 139 ), basal border widely, shallowly emarginate.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, Cnd (Cundinamarca), Rio Negro below Pacho , 26 II’42, Chapin No 664. ( USNM).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Remarks. This species and C. maureen share similar protibial flanges and lateral projections of the male apical tergite. They are immediately distinguished from each other by the number of spots on each elytron, cusps on the 6th abdominal ventrite present or absent, and form of the male genitalia. See remarks under C. maureen .

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.