Serratitibia evelyn Gordon and Canepari, 2013

Gordon, Robert D., Canepari, Claudio & Hanley, Guy A., 2013, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XII: New name for Cyra Mulsant, review of Brachiacanthini genera, and systematic revision of Cleothera Mulsant, Hinda Mulsant and Serratitibia Gordon and Canepari, new genus, Insecta Mundi 2013 (278), pp. 1-150 : 70-71

47. Serratitibia evelyn Gordon and Canepari , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.5 mm, width 2.0 mm; body slightly elongate, convex. Dorsal surface shiny, lacking alutaceous sculpture. Color yellow; pronotum with black, basomedial macula wide basally, extended anteriorly 3/4 distance to pronotal apex at middle, apex weakly, narrowly emarginate with yellow; elytron black with 5 small, yellow spots arranged in transverse rows of two each plus one at apex, mediolateral spot irregularly transverse, projected inward, apical spot rectangularly transverse ( Fig. 307 ); prosternum, epipleuron, meso–, metaventrites black; abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than diameter, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than diameter; elytral punctures larger than pronotal punctures, separated by less than 2 times diameter. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal angle broadly rounded, anterior angle abruptly rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, slightly grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibial flange narrower than remainder of protibia, outer margin arcuate, with 8–10 small, worn down teeth, sponda extended beyond protibial border. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, slightly convergent, joined at basal 1/6 of prosternum. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without median setal tuft. Abdomen with primary pores laterally between ventrites 4–5 large, extended under apical 1/3 of ventrite 4; postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite straight in basal 1/3, flattened along apical margin of ventrite, curved forward. Abdominal ventrites with long, sparse, pubescence, punctures on basal 2 ventrites separated by about diameter medially, becoming smaller and dense laterally, ventrites 3–5 densely punctured throughout; 5 th ventrite depressed medially in apical 3/4, apical margin deeply emarginate medially, lateral angle of emargination pronounced with small tubercle bearing tuft of dense setae; 6 th ventrite short, narrow, deeply depressed medially, depression glabrous, without median tubercle, densely punctured, apical margin shallowly emarginate with tuberculate angle on each side, angle with tuft of dense setae. Apical tergite short, narrow, apex slightly emarginate medially, surface densely, finely punctured. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, sides almost parallel, apex obliquely rounded; paramere Unm type, widened apically, apex obliquely truncate ( Fig. 308, 309 ); sipho slender, curved in basal 2/3, basal capsule with inner arm long, wide, rectangular, apex curved, outer arm long, wide, curved, 2 times as long as inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply emarginate.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Brazil, Ch. Fry, S. Paulo, Santos, Fry Coll. 1905-100, Cleothera Gacognii Muls. (BMNH) . Paratype; 1, ( Brazil), Sao Paulo, Bosque da Saude , 4.IV.1943, F. Lane col. ( MZSP) .

Remarks. This species is distinguished by the large, basomedial pronotal macula extended 2/3 the distance to anterior pronotal margin, anterior border of macula weakly, narrowly emarginate with yellow, and the apical spot on each elytron large, transversely rectangular with anterior border deeply emarginate.

Figures

Figures 301–314. 301–306) Serratitibia linda. 301) Habitus. 302) Proleg. 303) Phallobase ventral. 304) Phallobase lateral. 305) Enlarged siphonal apex. 306) Sipho. 307–309) Serratitibia evelyn. 307) Habitus. 308) Phallobase ventral). 309) Phallobase lateral. 310–314) Serratitibia mildred. 310) Habitus. 311) Phallobase ventral. 312) Phallobase lateral. 313) Enlarged siphonal apex. 314) Sipho.