Hyperaspis buqueti: Crotch 1874:213

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 : 72-74

Hyperaspis buqueti: Crotch 1874:213 .

Hynda buqueti: Weise 1895:127 .

Hinda buqueti: Korschefsky 1931:177 ; Blackwelder 1945:446; Gordon 1987: 26.

Diagnosis. Body oval­convex. Integument yellow with black spots on pronotum and elytra ( Fig. 15 ). Base of pronotum with transversal black band having four projections extending anteriorly half length of pronotum, and with two apical trapezoidal spots. Scutellum black. Each elytrum with six maculae: the first small, round, over the humeral callous; the second through fourth positioned around the dorsal callus, approximately the same size but with the second largest, the second next to the suture, the third bellow the humeral callus, the fourth next to the external margin; the fifth and sixth in the posterior half of the elytron, the fifth being centrally located on the disc, the sixth being smaller and nearer the external margin. Elytra also with straight sutural stripe, the same color as the spots, extending from the scutellum to the elytral apex. Length 5.58 mm; width 4.33 mm.

Male. Unknown.

Female. Genital plate wide, pointed at apex, with one small style; spermatheca cylindrical, forming an arc with rounded cornus and small ramus. Last sternite with dense file of bristles along apical border ( Fig. 25 ).

Remarks. Hinda buqueti is the largest species in the genus. It, along with H. uncinata and H. terminata , has a yellow background integument, and the three of these have a similar geographic distribution in the Atlantic Costal Forest of Brazil.

Type material. One specimen of H. buqueti , located in the BMNH has the following labels: [Type], [57–71], [Buqueti—Dej.— Brésil], [named by Musant]. Gordon (1987) indicated, with doubt, that the type material should be located in the Muséum Histoire Naturelle, Lyon. Mulsant (1850) in the original description of Cleothera buqueti wrote: ‘‘Patrie, Brésil (collect. Buquet, Dejean, Germar e Schaum).’’

Material examined. Brasil: Santa Catarina, FCC 1057 , one specimen ( DZUP) ; one specimen [Type] ( BMNH) ; [ Brazil] two specimens ( BMNH) ; [Chevr.] two specimens ( BMNH) .

Figures

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

Fig. 25. Hinda buqueti. Female genitalia.