Cyrea holly 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 : 32-33

17. Cyrea holly Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.2 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head weakly alutaceous, slightly shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with 5 brown maculae, basomedian macula short, wide, extended about 1/5 distance to apical pronotal margin, anterior margin of macula sinuate, 1 triangular spot present on each side of middle of pronotum, 1 small, oval spot present medially near lateral pronotal margin; elytron with brown sutural border from scutellum to apex, border widened anterior to middle, remaining margins of elytron narrowly bordered with brown, 4 brown spots present, humeral spot large, irregularly oval, discal spot large, curved, an inside out comma shape, 2 small, rounded spots on apical declivity ( Fig. 89 ); ventral surface with head, anterior and median portions of prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-4 brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture 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 about a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron medially, separated by about a diameter, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 2/3. 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 without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin arcuate, smooth, sponda extended beyond angle ( Fig. 90 ). Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/8 of prosternum, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite flattened along posterior ventrite margin, weakly extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and coarse punctures medially, punctures becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex emarginate; 6th ventrite deeply depressed medially, apex deeply emarginate with lateral angle abruptly rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe slender, about 2/3 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent from base to apex, apex rounded; paramere Pav, widened from base to obliquely truncate apex, upper margin with shallow, median emargination and large, sclerotized projection, or “ear” slightly posterior to apex ( Fig. 91, 92 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, wide, apex rounded, outer arm narrower and slightly longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border distinctly emarginate ( Fig. 93, 94 ).

Female. Similar to male except head with large, elongate, median brown spot, pronotum with median spots extended to anterior brown border. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, slender; bursal cap oval, with 2 weakly sclerotized arms, apical strut short, slender ( Fig. 95 ).

Variation. Elytron with discal spot weakly connected to brown sutural border and narrowly connected to humeral spot, or with 5 dark spots, anterolateral spot divided into 2 spots.

Type material. Holotype male; Trinidad, W. I., Morne Bleu , 2700', Aug. 15, 1969, H.&A. Howden. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 7, 1, same data as holotype except date “ Aug.6, 1969 ( USNM); 2, “ Venezuela ;” ( ZMHB) 4, “Central amer.” ( ZMHB).

Geographical distribution. Trinidad, Venezuela

Remarks. The general dorsal color pattern is similar to that of several members of the emiliae group, but similar only to that of C. brittany within that group. This species apparently occurs also in Central America as evidenced by 4 paratypes in the ZMHB labeled as being from there. See remarks under C. brittany .

Figures

Figures 83-101. Cyrea spp. 83-88) Cyrea melanie. 83) Habitus. 84) Proleg. 85) Phallobase ventral. 86) Phallobase lateral. 87) Sipho. 88) Enlarged siphonal apex. 89-95) Cyrea holly. 89) Habitus. 90) Proleg. 91) Phallobase ventral. 92) Phallobase lateral. 93) Sipho. 94) Enlarged siphonal apex. 95) Female genitalia. 96-101) Cyrea brittany. 96) Habitus. 97) Phallobase ventral. 98) Phallobase lateral. 99) Sipho. 100) Enlarged siphonal apex. 101) Female bursal cap, apical strut, and spermathecal capsule.