Cyrea stella 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 : 43-44

28. Cyrea stella Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.7 mm; elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with Mshaped, pale brown median macula; elytron entirely yellowish 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. 153 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum pale brownish yellow, meso- and metaventrite dark yellowish brown; abdomen brownish yellow except paler laterally and apically. 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 about 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 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 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, descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated apically, convergent, joined at basal 1/6 of prosternum, connected to base by single carina. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without 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 short, dense pubescence throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex weakly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 2/ 3 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent from base to obliquely truncate apex; paramere Pav, widened from base to rounded apex, upper margin slightly curved, with small, apically blunt “ear” at anterolateral angle ( Fig. 154, 155 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, apical 1/2 lost, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, projected forward, apex rounded, outer arm longer and wider than inner arm, with accessory piece ( Fig. 156, 157 ), basal border abruptly, deeply emarginate.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Colombia) Columb Pehlke , R. Korschefsky cum typ. comp., Korschefsky Collection 1952, Hyp. luteola Muls., det. R. Korschefsky 1945. ( USNM).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Remarks. This species has the appearance of a very small C. languida although the male genitalia are completely different.

Figures

Figures 153-170. Cyrea spp. 153-157) Cyrea stella. 153) Habitus. 154) Phallobase ventral. 155) Phallobase lateral.156) Sipho. 157) Enlarged siphonal apex. 158-164) Cyrea june. 158) Habitus. 159) Phallobase ventral. 160) Enlarged lateral view of basal lobe apex. 161) Phallobase lateral. 162) Sipho. 163) Enlarged siphonal apex. 164) Female genitalia. 165-170) Cyrea hexastigma. 165) Habitus. 166) Phallobase ventral. 167 Phallobase lateral. 168) Sipho. 169) Enlarged siphonal apex. 170) Female genitalia.