Hinda decemverrucata (Mulsant)

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 : 12-13

2. Hinda decemverrucata (Mulsant)

Cleothera decem -verrucata Mulsant, 1850: 603.

Hyperaspis decem -verrucata: Crotch 1874: 213.

Hyperaspis decemverrucata: Korschefsky 1931: 187 ; Blackwelder 1945: 446; Gordon 1987: 27. Hinda decemverrucata: Almeida and Milléo 2000: 85 .

Description. Female lectotype. Length 3.2 mm, width 2.6 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, weakly shiny; pronotum slightly alutaceous; elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except head and pronotum which are brownish yellow; anterolateral angle of pronotum with large, rounded yellow macula; elongate, oval, yellow macula present medially; elytron light brown with 5 large, yellow spots arranged as in Fig. 43 ; ventral surface brown except mouthparts and legs which are brown- ish yellow, abdomen brown medially, yellowish brown in lateral 1/4. Head punctures small, separated by less than diameter, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than 2 times diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 times diameter; metaventral punctures 3 or 4 times as large as on pronotum, separated by diameter or more medially, becoming larger and contiguous laterally. Clypeus truncate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, dorsally ridged, angled forward, apically rounded, yellowish brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides feebly rounded, basal and anterior angles rounded, lateral margin slightly curved, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia widely flanged, flange rounded, outer margin serrate, wider than remainder of protibia ( Fig. 44 ); sponda pronounced, extended beyond protibial flange. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated apically, convergent toward prosternal base, joined before base. Abdomen with primary pores laterally between ventrites 4–5 small, slightly emarginating apex of ventrite 4, not forming depression on ventrite 5; postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended to apical margin of ventrite medially, then broadly forward; ventrites 1–4 with sparse, long pubescence and dense punctures, punctures dense throughout. Genitalia with slightly elongate spermathecal capsule; bursal cap with 3 arms, outer arms widely divergent, enlarged apically, apex emarginate, apical strut large, flat, apically oval.

Male. Similar to female except head entirely yellow. Fifth abdominal ventrite slightly depressed medially, without tubercle on each side of middle, without dense, long pubescence on apical margin, apical margin deeply emarginate, surface densely punctate; 6th ventrite narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, with distinct, apically acute, median tubercle set back from truncate apex. Apical tergite smooth, impunctate, with deep median groove. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, symmetrical, wide at base, evenly narrowed to truncate apex; paramere dorsally lobed in lateral view, with setal tuft on anterior margin of lobe ( Fig. 45, 46 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with lateral alae before apex, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apex oblique, outer arm long, slender, sinuate, with large accessory piece ( Fig. 47, 48 ).

Variation. Length 3.2 – 3.6 mm, width 2.6–3.0 mm. Dorsal color pattern varies from that described above in that the yellow elytral spots can appear somewhat coalesced as the brown borders become reduced or absent.

Type locality. Colombia.

Type depository. UMZC (lectotype designated by Gordon 1987).

Geographical distribution. Colombia, precise locality unknown.

Specimens examined. 11. Colombia. 3 without further locality data; Bogota; Cnd (Cundinamarca), El Colegio ; N. de S. (Norte de Santander), 25 km S. Chinacota, 2300m. ( UMZC) ( USNM) ( ZMHB) .

Remarks. The lectotype is a female with abdomen missing. Two other male specimens of this species are with the lectotype in the Crotch collection. These specimens, labeled “Chevr.,” are here designated and labeled as paralectotypes. One of these paralectotypes consists of only a head, pronotum, proleg, abdomen, and genitalia.

Figures

Figures 30–48. 30–36) Cleothera buqueti. 30) Habitus. 31) Protibia. 32) Phallobase ventral. 33) Phallobase lateral. 34) Enlarged siphonal apex. 35) Sipho. 36) Female genitalia. 37–42) Hinda decas. 37) Habitus. 38) Protibia. 39) Phallobase ventral. 40) Enlarged siphonal apex. 41) Sipho. 42) Female genitalia. 43–48) Hinda decemverrucata. 43) Habitus. 44) Proleg. 45) Phallobase ventral. 46) Phallobase lateral. 47) Enlarged siphonal apex. 48) Sipho.