Cyrea vera 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 : 47-48

32. Cyrea vera Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male. Length 4.0 mm, width 3.4 mm; body rounded, somewhat oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum faintly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except head reddish yellow with clypeus black and base of frons with black macula on each side of middle; pronotum with wide, short, black basomedian macula extended slightly more than 1/2 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula protruding medially, anterior border widely, deeply emarginate with yellow medially; elytron black with 6 large, yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with humeral and scutellar spots connected, mediolateral spot projected inward, discal spot irregularly round, apicolateral spot and apical spot near suture connected ( Fig. 177 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite black, legs yellow except tarsi, protibia, mesotibia, and entire metaleg dark brown; abdomen yellow except median portion of ventrites1-3 dark brown. Head entirely pubescent, punctures small, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture about as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on elytron, separated by a diameter or less medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus slightly 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 slightly curved, nearly straight, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron wide, slightly grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle ( Fig. 178 0. Carinae on prosternal process apparently entirely absent. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrites 1-3 with dense, long pubescence and coarse, dense punctures; ventrites 4-6 with long, dense pubescence throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite not 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 about as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base to apical 1/5, apical 1/5 narrowed to rounded apex; paramere Pem, widened from narrow base to extremely wide apex, lower margin curved, apex truncate ( Fig. 179 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, outer arm wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border broadly, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 180, 181 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; Peru, July 28. 1936, F. Woytkowski, No. 3755, San Ildefonso Hills, 1900- 4000m asl, Dept. Amazonas. ( USNM) . Paratype; 1, same data as holotype ( USNM) .

Geographical distribution. Peru.

Remarks. Cyrea vera is an easily recognized species because of the large size; rounded body form; black clypeus of male; lack of prosternal carinae; and elytron with 6 yellow spots, humeral and scutellar spots connected, and apicolateral and inner spot near suture connected.

Figures

Figures 171-187. Cyrea spp. 171-176) Cyrea natalia. 171) Habitus. 172) Phallobase ventral. 173) Phallobase lateral. 174) Sipho. 175) Enlarged siphonal apex. 176) Female genital plates. 177-181) Cyrea vera. 177) Habitus. 178) Protibia. 179) Phallobase ventral. 180) Sipho. 181) Enlarged siphonal apex. 182-187) Cyrea agnes. 182) Habitus. 183) Phallobase ventral. 184) Phallobase lateral. 185) Sipho. 186) Enlarged siphonal apex. 187) Female genital plates and spermathecal capsule.