Dilatitibialis florifera (Vogel) Canepari, Claudio, Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2013

Canepari, Claudio, Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2013, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XV: systematic revision of Dilatitibialis Duverger (Coccidulinae; Hyperaspidini), Insecta Mundi 2013 (312), pp. 1-91 : 55-56

47. Dilatitibialis florifera (Vogel) , new combination

Cleothera florifera Vogel, 1865: 233 .

Hyperaspis florifera: Korschefsky 1931: 189 ; Blackwelder 1945: 447.

Description. Male. Length 2.5 mm, width 2.0 mm; body round, slightly oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum faintly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color light brown except pronotum yellow with irregular, basomedian M-shaped macula; elytron with 5 large, yellow spots in rows of 2 each plus apical spot, humeral spot triangular, mediolateral spot projected inward, apical spot deeply emarginate on apical margin ( Fig. 257 ); ventral surface with prosternum, meso- and metaventrites pale reddish yellow; abdomen yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; elytral punctures larger than those on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than those on pronotum, separated by about a diameter medially, becoming larger and separated by a diameter or less toward lateral margin. Clypeus very slightly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, lateral angle broadly rounded, surface with dense, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 5 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides feebly rounded, basal and anterior angles rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, slightly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia widely flanged, flange arcuate, wider than remainder of protibia, outer margin smooth; sponda slightly wider than flange. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly spaced apically, convergent toward base, joined at apical 1/4 of prosternum, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite without median setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with primary pores laterally between ventrites 4- 5 large, occupying apical 1/3 of ventrite 4, forming slight depression on ventrite 5; postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite flattened along basal margin of ventrite in median 1/3, rounded in apical 2/3, extended forward; ventrites 2-4 with sparse, short pubescence and dense, coarse punctures, 5th ventrite not depressed medially, unmodified, apical margin broadly, weakly emarginate, surface densely punctate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, depressed in apical 1/2, apical margin broadly, weakly emarginate, lateral angle of emargination projecting, widely rounded, surface densely punctured. Apical tergite densely punctured, with shallow median groove, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, asymmetrical, slender, sides slightly divergent from base to apex, apex triangular; paramere Psc, wide, lower margin at apex slightly produced ( Fig. 258, 259 ); sipho slender, strongly curved in basal 1/2, basal capsule large, inner arm long, wide, inner margin sinuate, apex obliquely truncate, outer arm longer than inner arm, wide, with large accessory piece, basal border broadly, deeply emarginate ( Fig. 260, 261 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 2.4 to 2.5 mm. Elytron with discal and apical spots sometimes narrowly connected along sutural margin.

Type locality. Colombia.

Type depository. DEI (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Specimens examined. 8. Colombia. Cundinamarca, Pacho; Pandi. ( USNM) ( ZMHB).

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern consists of 5 yellow spots on a darker background, a common pattern in this genus, but the pale brown background and apical spot on each elytron with deeply emarginate anterior margin renders this species somewhat recognizable. Male genitalia are diagnostic, but it is possible to recognize D. florifera from external appearance alone. See remarks under D. crystal .

A male type labeled “neu Granada (handwritten)/ Schaufuss 1932/ Syntypus (red paper)/coll. DEI Müncheberg” is here designated the lectotype. Two paralectotypes bear the same labels except one has an illegible, handwritten label and the other bears an additional label “ Hyperaspis florifera Vog. Det. R Korschefsky 1945 .” The lectotype should be in the ZMHB but is not there, so we designate the lectotype and 2 paralectotypes from DEI specimens that were obviously among those seen by Vogel (1865).

Figures

Figures 251-267. 251-256) Dilatitibialis luteola. 251) Habitus. 252) Phallobase ventral. 253) Phallobase lateral. 254) Enlarged siphonal apex. 255) Sipho. 256) Female genitalia (lacking spermathecal capsule).257-261) Dilatitibialis florifera. 257) Habitus. 258) Phallobase ventral. 259) Phallobase lateral. 260) Sipho. 261) Enlarged siphonal apex. 262-267) Dilatitibialis fuscomaculata. 262) Habitus. 263) Phallobase ventral.264) Phallobase lateral. 265) Enlarged siphonal apex. 266) Sipho. 267) Female genitalia.