Serratitibia kelly Gordon and Canepari, 2013

Gordon, Robert D., Canepari, Claudio & Hanley, Guy A., 2013, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XII: New name for Cyra Mulsant, review of Brachiacanthini genera, and systematic revision of Cleothera Mulsant, Hinda Mulsant and Serratitibia Gordon and Canepari, new genus, Insecta Mundi 2013 (278), pp. 1-150 : 81

59. Serratitibia kelly Gordon and Canepari , new species

Description. Female holotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.2 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface shiny, lacking alutaceous sculpture. Color black; head narrowly reddish brown above antennal base; pronotum with lateral 1/3 yellow, inner margin of yellow area arcuate; elytron with 1 large, yellow, irregularly oval median spot occupying most of apical 2/3 ( Fig. 350 ); mouthparts, prothoracic hypomeron, legs yellow; abdomen brown. Head punctures small, separated by diameter or less, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures smaller than head punctures, separated by less than diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by 1–3 times diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on elytra, separated by less than diameter medially, slightly larger laterally. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, slightly angled forward, apically rounded, reddish brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal angle broadly rounded, anterior angle abruptly rounded, lateral margin straight, basal margin with trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, deeply grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibial flange as wide as remainder of protibia, outer margin arcuate, with about 8 teeth throughout, teeth larger medially, sponda extended beyond protibial border. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, parallel, joined at basal 1/6 of prosternum, connected to base by short stem. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to posterior ventrite margin, rounded along margin, apex extended forward; primary pores between ventrites 4–5 large, extended under apical 1/2 of ventrite 4. Abdominal ventrites 1–6 with short, sparse pubescence, punctures on basal 3 ventrites large medially, separated by diameter or less, becoming smaller and denser laterally, ventrites 3–6 densely, finely punctured throughout. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, curved in apical 1/2, cornu slightly enlarged; bursal cap broadly triangular, with 3 arms, apical strut long, slender, apex slightly widened in lateral view ( Fig. 351 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype female; Colombia, 1200', Anchicaya Dam, 70km E. Buenaventura, Valle, VII.22.1970, H. and A. Howden ( USNM).

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern of this species is not repeated elsewhere in the genus.

Figures

Figures 348–353. 348–349) Serratitibia judy. 348) Habitus. 349) Female genitalia. 350–351) Serratitibia kelly. 350) Habitus. 351) Female genitalia. 352–353) Serratitibia nicole. 352) Habitus. 353) Female genitalia.