Serratitibia fraudulenta (Kirsch) Gordon, Robert D., Canepari, Claudio & Hanley, Guy A., 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 : 46-47

22. Serratitibia fraudulenta (Kirsch) , new status, new combination

Hyperaspis ecoffeti var. fraudulenta Kirsch, 1876: 124 .

Hyperaspis ecoffeti ab. fraudulenta: Korschefsky 1931: 187 ; Blackwelder 1945: 447.

Description. Male. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.6 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface shiny, lacking alutaceous sculpture. Color yellow; pronotum with large, oval, black basomedial macula having anterior border slightly indented with yellow, extended 2/3 distance to anterior pronotal border; elytron with sutural border black, border widened medially, and 2 large, black, slightly transverse spots ( Fig. 174 ); prosternum medially brownish yellow, meso–, metaventrites brown; abdomen reddish yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than diameter, each puncture as large as 1–2 eye facets; pronotal punctures equal in size to head punctures, separated by less than 2 times diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 times diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytra, separated by diameter or less medially, larger laterally. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus about 5 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 rounded, basal margin without trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, deeply grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibial flange slightly narrower than remainder of protibia, outer margin arcuate, with about 6 small teeth and a single, larger median tooth, teeth present throughout, sponda extended beyond protibial border. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, weakly convergent, joined at basal 1/4 of prosternum, joined to base by short stem. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with trace of median setal tuft. 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, rounded along margin, apex extended forward. Abdominal ventrites 1–4 with short, sparse pubescence, punctures on basal 3 ventrites large, separated by less than 2 times diameter, 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, deeply depressed medially, depression glabrous, bearing large median tubercle, apical margin shallowly emarginate, angle on each side of emargination with tuft of setae. Apical tergite short, narrow, apex rounded, surface densely, finely punctured. Genitalia with basal lobe nearly as long as paramere, sides convergent, apex obliquely truncate; paramere Unm type, wide, widened apically, apex rounded ( Fig. 175 ); sipho robust, curved in basal 2/3, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, apex rounded, outer arm 3 times longer than inner arm, wide, not widened apically, with accessory piece, basal border broadly, moderately emarginate ( Fig. 176, 177 ).

Female. Similar to male except basomedial pronotal macula extended to anterior pronotal border. Genitalia with spermatheca long, slender, curved medially, cornu enlarged; bursal cap rounded, with 3 arms, inner arm faint, apical strut short, narrow, apex spatulate in lateral view ( Fig. 178 ).

Variation. Length 2.0– 2.6 mm, width 1.6–2.0 mm. Male basomedial pronotal macula varies slightly in size, anterior margin may be entirely rounded or distinctly emarginate with yellow, elytral spots vary in size, both anterior and posterior margins of anterior spot may be slightly “ragged,” and spot shape varies from typically transverse to nearly round.

Type locality. Peru.

Type depository. SNSD (holotype).

Geographical distribution. Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

Specimens examined. 53. Bolivia. Amboro National Park ; Espia, Rio Bopi ; Las Juntas; St. Helena ; Santa Cruz, Buena Vista. Brazil. Para, Belém; Para, Braganca; Mato Grosso. Ecuador. Coca Pena ; Napo, Limoncocha; Orellana, Payamino Research Station ; Peru. Peru; Ayacucho, La Mar, Santa Rosa Cuzco, Cashiriari ; Cuzco, Quispicanchis, Quincemil; Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res .; Monson Valley , Tingo Maria ; Pachitea; Parque Nacional Manu; Tingo Maria; Varias, Tingo Maria. Venezuela. Estado Aragua, Parque Nacional Henri Pittier. ( BMNH) ( CAS) ( JEBC) ( MZSP) ( SNSD) ( UNMSM) ( USNM) ( ZMHB) .

Remarks. This is a frequently collected, mostly Andean species that has a relatively distinctive elytral color pattern.

The holotype is a male in the SNSD collection labeled “Poznzn Coll Kirsch (green paper)/ Ecoffeti Muls. var. fraudulenta (handwritten)/ Hyperaspis ecoffeti v. fraudulenta (blue paper, handwritten)/Typus (red paper)/Hyper. (Cleothera) ecoffeti var. (handwritten) det. R. Korschefsky 194/ fraudulenta Kirsch (handwritten) det. R. Korschefsky 1944/ Staatl. museum für Tierkunde.” From the original description it appears that Kirsch had only one specimen, therefore this is the holotype. Hyperaspis ecoffeti is indeed a member of Hyperaspis ( Gordon and Canepari, 2008) , H. fraudulenta is a member of Serratitibia .

Figures

Figures 174–189. 174–178) Serratitibia fraudulenta. 174) Habitus. 175) Phallobase ventral. 176) Enlarged siphonal apex. 177) Sipho. 178) Female genitalia. 179–184) Serratitibia kathleen. 179) Habitus. 180) Phallobase ventral. 181) Phallobase lateral. 182) Enlarged siphonal apex. 183) Sipho. 184) Female genitalia. 185–189) Serratitibia rose. 185) Habitus. 186) Phallobase ventral. 187) Phallobase lateral. 188) Enlarged siphonal apex. 189) Sipho.