Cyrea charlene 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 : 50

35. Cyrea charlene Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.2 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum, and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with black basomedian macula extended 3/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with anterior border projected medially, apical margin of macula entire; elytron black with 5 yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot triangular, scutellar spot irregularly rounded, mediolateral spot narrowly separated from lateral margin of elytron, irregularly rounded, discal spot somewhat oval, apical spot transversely rectangular, anterior border of spot slightly emarginate ( Fig. 193 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown except median portion of ventrites1-3 dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to twice 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 weakly 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 narrow, grooved, 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 narrowly separated apically, convergent, jointed at basal 1/4 of prosternum, connected to base by single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrites 1-2 with dense, long pubescence and coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 4-6 with long, 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 slightly longer than paramere, asymmetrical, sides nearly parallel from base to apical 1/ 4, apical 1/4 curved to rounded apex; paramere Pem, widened from narrow base to extremely wide apex, upper margin straight, apically acute, lower margin abruptly curved before middle, apex abruptly rounded, entire apex broadly emarginate ( Fig. 194, 195 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, slender, apex obliquely truncate, outer arm wider and longer than inner arm, curved, with accessory piece, basal border broadly, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 196, 197 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Bolivia, Mapiri ( ZMHB).

Geographical distribution. Bolivia.

Remarks. Cyrea charlene is similar to several other species externally, but male genitalia distinguish it from other members of this group. It is quite similar to the preceding C. willie , but the smaller black pronotal macula and mediolateral spot much closer to the lateral elytral margin will separate C. charlene from that species.

Figures

Figures 188-203. Cyrea spp. 188-192) Cyrea willie. 188) Habitus. 189) Phallobase ventral. 190) Phallobase lateral. 191) Sipho. 192) Enlarged siphonal apex. 193-197) Cyrea charlene. 193) Habitus. 194) Phallobase ventral. 195) Phallobase lateral. 196)Sipho. 197)Enlarged siphonal apex. 198-203) Cyrea bessie. 198) Habitus. 199)Phallobase ventral. 200) Phallobase lateral. 201) Sipho. 202) Enlarged siphonal apex. 203) Female genitalia.