Tiphysa plumbea Mulsant, 1850

Milléo, Julianne & de Almeida, Lúcia Massutti, 2003, Revision of the Genus Tiphysa Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Hyperaspidinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (3), pp. 274-280 : 279-280

Tiphysa plumbea Mulsant, 1850

( Figs. 17–19 , 21 )

Tiphysa plumbea Mulsant, 1850:517–518 ; Crotch 1874:210; Korschefsky 1931:208; Blackwelder 1945:449; Gordon 1987:26; Fürsch 1989:20; 1990:17; Duverger 1989:146.

Diagnosis. Pronotum, scutellum and elytron dark-green with metallic reflections and slight punctation ( Fig. 21 ). Male with head black with one rectangular spot ferruginous on the frontoclypeal region and base of pronotum with yellow band. Thoracic venter black at middle, lateral margin and legs ferruginous. Abdomen of male ferruginous with seven visible segments. Length 5.08–5.25 mm; width 4.25–4.5 mm.

Male. Median lobe assymetrical, shorter than parameres, with a truncate apex and membraneous projections; parameres wide at apex with setae long ( Fig. 17 ). Sipho long, curved, with narrow projections ( Fig. 18 ).

Female. Head and base of pronotum without spots; six abdominal segments; spermatheca cylindrical, arched; infundibulum short, with three long arms ( Fig. 19 ).

Types. Holotype of T. plumbea , from Cayenne , French Guiana. Gordon (1987) indicated, with doubt, that the type material should be located at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Lyon, France, but we inquired, and it could not be located there.

Specimens Examined. Without locality. Two specimens, Deyrollei (UMZC).

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Figures

Figs. 17–19. Tiphysa plumbea Mulsant, 1850. 17) Tegmen; 18) sipho; 19) female genitalia.

Figs. 21–22. Dorsal habitus. 21) Tiphysa plumbea Mulsant, 1850; 22) Tiphysa egae Crotch,