Hinda decas Weise 1902:171, 1971

Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Milléo, Julianne, 2000, Review Of The Genus Hinda Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Hyperaspinae, Brachiacanthadini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (1), pp. 68-87 : 74

Hinda decas Weise 1902:171 ; Korschefsky 1931:177; Blackwelder 1945: 446.

Diagnosis. Body oval­convex. Integument black with yellow spots on pronotum and elytra ( Fig. 16 ). Pronotum black at base, with two projections towards apex forming letter ‘‘M’’. Scutellum black. Each elytron with five large spots: the first oval and basal; the second, smallest, on humeral callus; the third, below first, close to suture, approximately same size as first, quadrangular, with oblique base and truncate apex; the fourth linked to external elytral border, with small central constriction and with rounded internal borders; fifth spot apical, oval, linked to external border. Length 3.92–4.08 mm. Width 3.08– 3.50 mm.

Male. Median lobe symmetrical, with rounded apex, shorter than parameres. Parameres wide at base and constricted at apical apical where they narrow and turn outward to end in rounded point ( Fig. 26 ). Sipho curved, with truncate apex and membranous projections ( Fig. 27 ).

Female. Unknown.

Remarks. Hinda decas resembles H. designata in color and in position of the spots, and in the symmetrical lobes of the male genitalia. However, H. decas does not have the central spot of the elytral disc, and other aspects of the male genitalia are different. In H. decas the parameres are narrow near the apex, while in H. designata they are wide and concave at the apex. It (and that of H. designata ) are restricted to Colombia.

Type Material. One specimen of H. decas , indicated by Weise as from Thieme, Colombia, Manizales (Patino), with a hand­written label Hinda decas m., possesses two additional labels: one printed ‘‘Zool. Mus. Berlin’’ and the other with: ‘‘ Lectotype, Hinda decas Weise Gordon 1971 ,’’ the designation of which was unpublished. This material is deposited in the ZMHU.

Material Examined. Colombia. Thieme col., lectotype, one specimen ( ZMHU); locality not indicated, one specimen ( ZMHU) .

Figures

Figs. 15–18. 15) Hinda buqueti; 16) Hinda decas; 17) Hinda designata; 18) Hinda modesta.

Figs. 26–27. Hinda decas. 26) tegmen; 27) sipho.