Canepari, Canepari & Gordon & Hanley, 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 : 102-103

89. Cyrea sue Canepari and Gordon, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.2 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head slightly alutaceous, weakly shiny, pronotum alutaceous, dull, elytron slightly alutaceous, weakly shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with large, black macula occupying all of pronotal surface except narrow anterior border and wider lateral border yellow; elytron black with 4 small yellow spots, humeral spot extended posteriorly along lateral margin of elytron to apical 5/6, widened at apical declivity, scutellar spot short, oval, discal spot obliquely oval, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 492 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black, trochanters and metafemur dark brown; abdomen dark brown, paler toward lateral margin. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by 1 to 4 times a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures slightly larger than on elytron, separated by a diameter or less medially, becoming coarser and separated by less than a diameter laterally. 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 rounded, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, 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, convergent toward base, joined at basal 1/3 of prosternum. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite flattened medially, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, short pubescence and 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 weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, symmetrical, sides weakly convergent from base to rounded apex; paramere Psc, long, narrow, of equal width throughout ( Fig. 493, 494 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 2/3, with visible alae in apical 1/6, basal capsule distinctly sclerotized, inner arm long, narrow, apex bifid, outer arm straight, wider and shorter than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 495, 496 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Brazil, S. Antonio, Coll Lethierry (sic), H. gaynoni Muls.Pernambuc (Bresil) ( USNM).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is most similar to that of C. lucille , but the pronotal dark area is larger, elytral spots smaller, trochanters and metafemur brown, and male genitalia with basal lobe distinctly longer than paramere.

The holotype is an old specimen from the Korschefsky collection, the folded determination label is handwritten, and one of the labels, although somewhat illegible, seems to state “Coll Lethierry.”

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.