Cyrea jeannette 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 : 59-60

45. Cyrea jeannette Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.0 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head weakly alutaceous, shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except head with clypeus and vertex brown, pronotum dark brown with anterolateral angle broadly yellow; elytron with complete brown border, sutural border wide, 4 dark brown spots present, humeral spot large, extended from base of elytron posteriorly beyond humeral callus, connected to both elytral base and lateral margin, discal spot narrow, triangularly oval, posterolateral spot on lateral margin triangularly oval, posteromedian spot oval with anterolateral angle emarginate ( Fig. 249 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite dark brown; abdomen yellow except median 2/3 of ventrites 1-4 brown. Head punctures small, separated by a less than to about a diameter, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by a diameter or less, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by about a diameter medially, 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 weakly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/8 of prosternum. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite flattened medially along posterior ventrite margin, 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 depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex weakly emarginate, lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe almost as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent to rounded apex, sides weakly “pinched” medially; paramere Pvl, lower margin strongly produced medially, apex rounded ( Fig. 250, 251 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, narrow, apex obliquely truncate, outer arm about as wide as and slightly longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 252, 253 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) Barueri, S. Paulo, 11.Xl.1955, K. Lenko, Colegio M. Alvarenga. ( DZUP).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Figures

Figures 238-253. Cyrea spp. 238-243) Cyrea devillii. 238) Habitus. 239) Phallobase ventral. 240) Phallobase lateral. 241) Sipho. 242) Enlarged siphonal apex. 243) Female genitalic plate and spermathecal capsule. 244-248) Cyrea yolanda. 244) Habitus. 245) Phallobase ventral. 246) Phallobase lateral. 247) Sipho. 248) Enlarged siphonal apex. 249-253) Cyrea jeannette. 249) Habitus. 250) Phallobase ventral. 251) Phallobase lateral. 252) Sipho. 253) Enlarged siphonal apex.