Cyrea audrey 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 : 56-57

42. Cyrea audrey Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.1 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron slightly alutaceous, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, wide, black basomedian macula extended 1/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with anterior margin irregularly sinuate; elytron with sutural, lateral and apical margins narrowly bordered in black, sutural border wide anterior to middle, lateral border triangularly widened on apical declivity, and 2 small black spots, anterolateral spot irregularly oval, posterior to humeral callus, posterior spot at apical declivity small, elongate oval ( Fig. 233 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite black; abdomen entirely dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than to about a diameter, 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 1 to 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on elytron, separated by less than a diameter throughout. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 6 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, not grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin straight, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, short, convergent, joined at middle of prosternum,. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and small punctures sparse medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex weakly emarginate; 6th ventrite not medially depressed, apex slightly emarginate, nearly truncate, lateral angle broadly rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 3/4 as long as paramere, slightly asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent in basal 7/8, apical 1/8 curved to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, lower margin narrowly, strongly produced medially, apex abruptly rounded ( Fig. 234, 235 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apex truncate, outer arm as long as and as wide as inner arm, without visible accessory piece, basal border weakly, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 236, 237 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) P. Grossa, 22-55 (remainder of label illegible), 6572, Colecao F. Justus Jor ( DZUP).

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is similar to that of C. bernice , but C. audrey has the lateral elytral margin with a black border, basomedian pronotal macula restricted to basal 1/4 of pronotum, and prosternal carinae not extended anterior to middle of prosternum.

Figures

Figures 221-237. Cyrea spp. 221-226) Cyrea renee. 221) Habitus. 222) Proleg. 223) Phallobase ventral. 224) Phallobase lateral. 225) Sipho. 226) Female genitalia. 227-232) Cyrea bernice. 227) Habitus. 228) Phallobase ventral. 229) Phallobase lateral. 230) Sipho. 231) Enlarged siphonal apex. 232) Female genital plate, bursal cap, apical strut, and spermathecal capsule.233-237) Cyrea audrey. 233) Habitus.234) Phallobase ventral. 235) Phallobase lateral. 236) Sipho. 237) Enlarged siphonal apex.