Hinda uncinata (Mulsant)

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 : 79-81

Hinda uncinata (Mulsant)

Figs. 20 , 35–37

Cleothera uncinata Mulsant 1853:206 .

Hyperaspis uncinata Crotch 1874:219 ; Korschefsky 1931:177; Blackwelder 1945:446; Gordon 1987:26.

Hinda uncinata Milléo et al. 1997:392 .

Diagnosis. Body oval­convex. Integument yellow, pale, with dark brown

spots on pronotum and elytra ( Fig. 20 ). Pronotum with four spots: two basal, united in center, and two triangular, apical. Each elytron with four spots: two basal, one close to suture, nearly rectangular; parallel to this one elongate spot on humeral callus; third large, oblique, filling posterior half of elytron; fourth elongate, parallel to third and to the epipleural margin, below second. Elytra also sutural stripe, same color as spots, extending from scutellum to apex of elytron. Length 3.00– 3.25 mm. Width 2.00– 2.42 mm.

Male. Median lobe asymmetrical, smaller than parameres, with base wide, with apex rounded; foliate parameres widened at apex, with long bristles on rounded margins ( Fig. 35 ). Sipho curved; apex wrinkled ( Fig. 36 ).

Female. Genital plate wide, with small style. Spermatheca cylindrical, arched with rounded cornus and small ramus. Last sternite with dense array of elongate bristles on apical margin ( Fig. 37 ).

Variation. The spots of the pronotum often white to form two ‘‘C’’s back to back. Each elytron may have five spots: i.e., the third spot may be divided, with one part in form of a small comma, and with the other rounded and within the arc of the first.

Remarks. The color of H. uncinata , the very characteristic yellow with brown spots, resembles H. buqueti and H. terminata . As with the majority of the species in this genus, the male has asymmetric genitalia, with parameres very wide at the apex. The geographical distribution is similar to several to these other two species, in the Atlantic Coastal region of Brazil.

Type Material. The lectotype of Hyperaspis uncinata , Santa Catarina, Brazil, labelled by Gordon (1987) UMZC .

Material Examined. Brazil. Minas Gerais: Camanducaia (Villa Monte Verde) , 15.XI.1965, J. Halik leg., one specimen ( MZSP) ; Santa Bárbara ( Serra do Caraça ) , 23­25.XI.1960, Araújo & Martins leg., two specimens ( MZSP) ; XI.1961, Kloss, Lenko, Martins & Silva leg., one specimen ( MZSP) ; III.1963, U. Martins, F. Werner & L. Silva leg., two specimens ( MZSP) ; São Paulo: Atibaia, 11.XII.1971, J. Halik leg., one specimen ( MZSP) ; Caraguatatuba ( Forest Reserve ) , 2.IV.1962, Martins, Reichardt & Silva leg., one specimen ( MZSP) ; Salesópolis ( Estação Biológica Boraceia ), one . II.1961, K. Lenko leg., one specimen ( MZSP) ; Parana´: Curitiba, XI.1938, Colégio Claretiano, P. Moure leg., one specimen ( MNRJ) ; Morretes ( Serra da Prata ) , three specimens, former­collection F. Justus ( DZUP) ; Pedreira (?), one specimen, former­collection F. Justus ( DZUP) ; Tijucas do Sul (Vossoroca) , 28.XI.1975, P. Moure leg., six specimens ( DZUP) ; Santa Catarina: lectotype, one specimen ( UMZC) , Garuva, 4.XI.1965, P. Moure leg., two specimens ( DZUP) ; Seara (Nova Teutônia), 15.IV.1935, one specimen ( DZUP) ; IX.1938, one specimen ( DZUP) ; 21.XII.1938, two specimens ( DZUP) ; 24.VIII.1939, one specimen ( DZUP) ; 193?, 17 specimens ( MNRJ) ; 29.VI.1945, three specimens ( DZUP) ; XI.1951, one specimen ( DZUP) ; X. 1961, three specimens ( DZUP) ; X.1965, one specimen ( DZUP) ; IV. 1966, 16 specimens ( DZUP) ; V.1966, four specimens ( DZUP) ; IX.1966, 11 specimens ( DZUP) ; 21.XI.1966, two specimens ( DZUP) ; 4.V.1967, one specimen ( DZUP) ; 11.IV.1967, five specimens ( DZUP) ; 5. IX.1967, one specimen ( DZUP) ; 18.II.1969, one specimen ( DZUP) ; 26.XI.1969, three specimens ( DZUP) ; 20.VIII.1971, one specimen ( DZUP) ; 30.XI.1971, one specimen ( DZUP) ; 21. XII. 1971, one specimen ( DZUP) ; one specimen ( MNRJ) ; sheet FCC 938, F. Plaumann leg., two specimens ( MNRJ) .

Figures

Figs. 19–24. 19) Hinda regularis; 20) Hinda uncinata; 21) Hinda terminata; 22) Hinda humerata; 23) Hinda joeli; 24) Hinda decemverrucata.

Figs. 35–37. Hinda uncinata. 35) tegmen; 36) sipho; 37) female genitalia.