Serratitibia humerata (Mulsant) Gordon & Canepari & Hanley, 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 : 77-78

54. Serratitibia humerata (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera humerata Mulsant, 1850: 605 .

Hinda humerata: Weise 1910: 59 .

Hyperaspis humerata: Korschefsky 1931: 190 ; Blackwelder1945: 447.

Description. Female holotype. Length 4.1 mm, width 3.0 mm; body rounded, convex. Color yellow; pronotum with elongate, median black macula wide basally, narrowed apically, apex weakly emarginate with yellow; elytron black with 5 large, yellow spots arranged as in Fig. 338 , humeral and mediolateral spots broadly connected; protibia reddish brown with flange brownish black. Head punctures small, separated by diameter or less, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures equal in size to head punctures, separated by 1–3 times diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1–3 times diameter. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, lateral angle rounded. Eye canthus short, about 4 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, nearly flat, weakly grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly flanged, flange rounded, outer margin with about 10 teeth, 3 large teeth medially, about 6 small teeth in basal and apical 1/3, sponda raised above protibial border ( Fig. 339 ). Abdomen with primary pores laterally between ventrites 4–5 small, round, extended under apical 1/ 4 of ventrite 4; postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended to apical mar- gin of ventrite at middle, then abruptly forward, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and dense, distinct punctures throughout; ventrites 2–4 sparsely pubescent, distinctly, densely punctured throughout; 5th ventrite flat, apical margin truncate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, apical margin rounded. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule, long, slender, narrowed to apex, bursal cap with 3 arms, median strut pronounced, long ( Fig. 340 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Cayenne ( French Guiana).

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Type depository. BMNH (holotype).

Geographical distribution. French Guiana.

Type material. Female holotype; Holotype (orange bordered disc)/Type (orange bordered disc)/5171 (blue disc)/Humerata. Muls. Cayenne. D. Leprieur (green paper)/Named by Mulsant/ Holotype Cleothera humerata Mulsant, 1850 , det. R. G. Booth 1997/ Hinda humerata (Muls.) , Det. Ali A. El–Ali. ( BMNH).

Remarks. A combination of large size, narrow black pronotal macula; humeral and mediolateral spots broadly connected, and dark protibial flange with 3 large, median teeth characterize S. humerata . Mulsant (1850) had material only from the Buquet collection (BMNH), and his description indicates that he had a single specimen, therefore a holotype.

Figures

Figures 332–340. 332–335) Serratitibia terminata. 332) Habitus. 333) Phallobase ventral. 334) Basal portion of sipho. 335) Female genitalia. 336–337) Serratitibia tammy. 336) Habitus. 337) Female genitalia. 338–340) Serratitibia humerata. 338) Habitus. 339) Proleg. 340) Female genitalia.