Canepari, Canepari & Gordon & Hanley, 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 : 60-61

46. Cyrea ella Canepari and Gordon, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.4 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, wide, black basomedian macula extended 5/6 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula protruding medially, anterior border entire, anterolateral 1/3 of pronotum yellow; elytron black with 5 large yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, scutellar spot rounded, mediolateral spot slightly removed from lateral margin, projected inward, apical spot transversely oval with anterior bor- der feebly emarginate ( Fig. 254 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite black; abdomen dark brown, paler toward lateral margin. Head punctures small, separated by less than to about a diameter, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to about a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by less than to a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus 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 curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron wide, 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, weakly convergent, joined at basal 1/3, connected to prosternal base by single carina. 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 depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides parallel in basal 5/6, apical 1/6 curved to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, lower margin produced in apical 5/6, apex rounded in lower 1/2, with minute apical projection medially, upper portion rounded ( Fig. 255, 256 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 3/4, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, outer arm wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 257, 258 ).

Female. Similar to male except head with clypeus narrowly brownish yellow and median yellow spot at base of frons, pronotum entirely black except small anterolateral area yellow. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, bent medially, narrowed in basal 1/3, cornu apically acute; bursal cap oval, apparently without visible sclerotized arms, apical strut long, robust, widened in apical 1/3 ( Fig. 259 ).

Variation. Length 2.5 to 3.0 mm, width 2.0 to 2.4 mm. Shape of mediolateral spot variable from elongate, strongly projected inward, to short, somewhat oval.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) Brasilia , Rio Jan, Fry Coll. 1905.100., Cleothera gacognei Muls. ( BMNH) . Paratypes; 4, 3, same data as holotype ( BMNH) ; 1, ( Brazil) 254, 60.23, Cleothera levratii, m., Brasil, Named by Mulsant ( BMNH) .

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is typical of many species of Cyrea and other Brachacanthini, but male genitalia with a ventrally projected paramere place it in the devillii group.

Figures

Figures 254-270. Cyrea spp. 254-259) Cyrea ella. 254) Habitus. 255) Phallobase ventral. 256) Phallobase lateral. 257) Sipho. 258) Enlarged siphonal apex. 259) Female genitalia. 260-264) Cyrea terry. 260) Habitus. 261) Phallobase ventral. 262) Phallobase lateral. 263) Sipho. 264) Enlarged siphonal apex. 265-270) Cyrea wilma. 265) Habitus. 266) Phallobase ventral. 267) Phallobase lateral. 268) Sipho. 269) Enlarged siphonal apex. 270) Female bursal cap, apical strut, and spermathecal capsule.