Serratitibia gaillardi (Mulsant) Gordon & Canepari & Hanley, 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 : 43-44

19. Serratitibia gaillardi (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera gaillardi Mulsant, 1853: 73 .

Hyperaspis gaillardi: Crotch 1874: 214 ; Korschefsky 1931: 189; Blackwelder 1945: 447.

Description. Male lectotype. Length 3.4 mm, width 2.8 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head and pronotum weakly alutaceous, slight shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow; except pronotum with brown to dark brown basomedial macula extended 3/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with apical border narrowly, deeply emarginate with yellow, small median spot on interior of macula yellow; sutural and apical margins of elytron with distinct brown border, basal and lateral borders with very narrow brown border, 3 dark brown spots present, humeral spot elongate from base of elytron posteriorly beyond humeral callus, discal spot in apical 1/2 obliquely oval, connected to sutural border, apical spot large, occupying most of apical declivity, obliquely transverse except anterior margin medially projected anteriorly ( Fig. 155 ); venter of head, prosternum, meso–, metaventrites dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown except median 1/3 of ventrites 1–3 dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by diameter or less, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1–2 times diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytra, separated by less than diameter. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, slightly angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal angle broadly rounded, anterior angle abruptly rounded, lateral margin slightly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, weakly grooved, slightly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibial flange as wide as remainder of protibia, outer margin arcuate, with about 6 small teeth from base to apex ( Fig. 156 ), sponda extended beyond protibial border. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, nearly parallel, joined at basal 1/4 of prosternum, connected to base by short stem. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with median setal tuft ( Fig. 166 ). Abdomen with primary pores laterally between ventrites 4–5 small, extended under apical 1/4 of ventrite 4; postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to posterior ventrite margin, flattened along margin, apex extended forward. Abdominal ventrites 1–4 with short, sparse pubescence, punctures on basal 3 ventrites large medially, separated by diameter or less, becoming smaller and dense laterally, ventrites 3–5 densely punctured throughout; 5th ventrite depressed medially in apical 1/2, apical border weakly emarginate medially, lateral angle of emargination with small tubercle bearing tuft of dense setae; 6th ventrite narrow, depressed medially, depression glabrous, without median tubercle, apical margin shallowly emarginate, angle on each side of emargination bearing tuft of setae. Apical tergite short, narrow, apex weakly curved, surface densely, finely punctured. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, sides convergent, apex obliquely truncate; paramere Unm type, widened from base to rounded apex ( Fig. 157, 158 ); sipho robust, curved in basal 2/3, basal capsule with inner arm elongate, narrowed medially, apex widened, slightly rounded, outer arm longer, narrower than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border broadly, weakly emarginate ( Fig. 159, 160 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. “l’Amérique mérdionale” ( Colombia)

Type depository. ZMMU (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Specimens examined. 1. Brazil. The lectotype.

Remarks. This species has a unique dorsal color pattern by which it may be recognized. It is not possible to determine from the original description how many type specimens Mulsant (1850) had when he described the species. Therefore, the single type from the Motschulsky collection in the ZMMU labeled “green disc male sign/ Cleothera gaillardi (handwritten)/ Cleothera gallardi Muls Columb.(green paper, handwritten)/ Hyperaspis gaillardi Muls (handwritten)ZMMU Russia ” is here designated the lectotype.

Figures

Figures 155–173. 155–160) Serratitibia gaillardi. 155) Habitus. 156) Protibia. 157) Phallobase ventral. 158) Phallobase lateral. 159) Enlarged siphonal apex. 160) Sipho. 161–167) Serratitibia uncinata. 161) Habitus. 162) Protibia. 163) Phallobase ventral. 164) Phallobase lateral. 165) Enlarged siphonal apex. 166) Sipho. 167) Male abdomen. 168–173) Serratitibia virginia. 168) habitus. 169) Protibia. 170) Phallobase ventral. 171) Phallobase lateral. 172) Enlarged siphonal apex. 173) Sipho.