Cyrea erica 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 : 80

68. Cyrea erica Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.1 mm; body rounded, somewhat oval, convex. Dorsal surface smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, narrow, dark brown basomedian macula, macula with anterior margin broadly, deeply emarginate with yellow; elytron with sutural margin narrowly bordered in black, and 2 large, black spots, 1 spot in anterior 1/2 of elytron, 1 spot on apical declivity, spots narrowly connected near lateral margin, anterior spot irregularly transverse, approaching sutural border, posterior spot obliquely transverse ( Fig. 374 ); ventral surface with head, median 1/3 of prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark brown; abdomen yellow except median 1/4 of ventrites 1-3 dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than to about a diameter, each puncture as large as an eye 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 slightly more than a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 5 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin straight, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/3, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and small punctures sparse medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2- 6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex emarginate with lateral angle abrupt. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, asymmetrical, slightly widened in basal 1/2, narrowed to obliquely truncate apex; paramere Psc, slender, sides parallel in median 1/3, than narrowed to rounded apex, lower anterior angle projected ( Fig. 375, 376 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, narrow, apex rounded, outer arm wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 377, 378 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 2.6 to 3.0 mm, width 2.0 to 2.4 mm. Elytron with anterior and posterior spots not laterally connected.

Type material. Holotype male; Peru, Satipo , V-VI, 1942, Paprzycki. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 2, Peru, Satipo, XI, 1942, Paprzycki ( USNM) .

Geographical distribution. Peru.

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is diagnostic for this species, especially the irregular shape of the anterior spot on each elytron.

Figures

Figures 368-385. Cyrea spp. 369-373) Cyrea dolores. 369) Habitus. 370) Phallobase ventral. 371) Phallobase lateral. 372) Sipho. 373) Female genitalia. 374-378) Cyrea erica. 374) Habitus. 375) Phallobase ventral. 376) Phallobase lateral. 377) Sipho. 378) Enlarged siphonal apex. 379-385) Cyrea tessulata. 379) Habitus. 380) Proleg. 381) Phallobase ventral. 382) Phallobase lateral. 383) Sipho. 384) Enlarged siphonal apex. 385) Female spermathecal capsule.