Cyrea elsie 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 : 101-102

88. Cyrea elsie Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.2 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, weakly shiny, pronotum alutaceous, dull, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with black basomedian macula extended more than 3/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, middle of macula with anchor shaped yellow spot, lateral 1/4 of pronotum yellow; elytron black with 5 large yellow spots, humeral spot oblong oval, median lateral spot not projected inward, scutellar spot broadly oval, discal spot slender, elongate, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 487 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark brown to black; abdomen brown, slightly paler toward lateral margin. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures slightly larger than head punctures, separated by less than to twice a diameter, elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by 2 to 4 times a diameter; metaventral punctures as large as on elytron medially, separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter, becoming larger and separated by a diameter or less toward lateral margin. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 8 eye facets long, not angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin curved, 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, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, curved toward base, joined just before base of prosternum. 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, short pubescence and slightly coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe short, about 3/4 as long as paramere, symmetrical, sides parallel in basal 5/6, curved to abruptly rounded apex in apical 1/6; paramere strongly Psc, short, wide, slightly widened in apical 1/3 ( Fig. 488, 489 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/6, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, apex bifid, outer arm slightly curved, about as wide as and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 490, 491 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 2.4 to 2.8 mm, width 1.9 to 2.2 mm. Pronotum with yellow spot in mediobasal black area reduced to central vitta and obliquely oval “eyespot” on each side of middle.

Type material. Holotype male; N. Peru, 2100m, Rio Chotano , VI-23-1956, W. Weyrauch 7121. ( USNM) . Paratype; 1, same data as holotype ( USNM) .

Other specimen. One male specimen labeled, Peru, Los Pobres, Ica, en maleza, L. Valencia, 29-5-69 ( USNM), is not designated a paratype of C. elsie because of the large size, length 3.2 mm, and lateral margin with continuous yellow border from humeral spot to apical spot, apex of border recurved anteriorly along sutural margin. All other characters, including male genitalia, agree well with those described for the types above.

Geographical distribution. Peru.

Remarks. This species bears a remarkable resemblance to C. alma , but the male 5th abdominal ventrite lacks cusps, and the dorsal punctation of C. elsie is very fine, the punctures much smaller than in C. alma .

Figures

Figures 487-502. Cyrea spp. 487-491) Cyrea elsie. 487) Habitus. 488) Phallobase ventral. 489) Phallobase lateral. 490) Sipho. 491) Enlarged siphonal apex. 492-496) Cyrea sue. 492) Habitus. 493) Phallobase ventral.494) Phallobase lateral. 495) Sipho. 496) Enlarged siphonal apex. 497-502) Cyrea collaris. 497) Habitus. 498) Phallobase ventral. 499) Phallobase lateral. 500) Sipho. 501) Enlarged siphonal apex. 502) Female spermathecal capsule.