Cyrea nellie 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 : 71-72

58. Cyrea nellie Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.1 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, wide, black basomedian macula extended about 7/8 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with apex truncate, not emarginate with yellow medially, lateral borders arcuate; elytron black with 2 yellow spots, humeral spot minute, triangular, reddish brown, center of elytron with wide vitta extended from base nearly to apex (Fig. 322); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black, trochanters dark brown, base of mesofemur and basal 1/2 of metafemur dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown except median portions of ventrites 1-3 dark brown. Head punctures fine, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture 2-3 times as large as an facet; pronotal punctures larger than 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 medially, separated by a diameter or less, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus 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 weakly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide, arcuate flange, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibial margin. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/3 of prosternum, connected to base with single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen lost. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, slender, asymmetrical, sides weakly convergent from base to abruptly rounded apex; paramere Pvl, moderately wide, widest medially, lower margin curved to obliquely truncate apex (Fig. 323, 324); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, abruptly bent at apical 1/8, basal capsule with inner arm long, slender, apex obliquely truncate, outer arm curved, slightly wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, deeply emarginate (Fig. 325, 326).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Ecuador, Zamora-Chinchipe. 8km NW Zamora, mouth Rio Sabanilla. 1420m., 1 November 1987, C. Young, R. Davidson, J. Rawlins, Wet forest . ( CMNH).

Geographical distribution. Ecuador.

Remarks. This species is similar in dorsal color pattern to C. tanya , but distinguished by the arcuately flanged protibia, partly dark brown meso- and metafemur, differently formed male sipho, and Ecuadorean distribution. See remarks under C. tanya .