Cleothera buqueti Mulsant, 1850

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 : 9-10

Cleothera buqueti Mulsant

Cleothera (Cleothera) buqueti Mulsant, 1850: 543 .

Hyperaspis buqueti: Crotch 1874: 213 .

Hynda buqueti: Weise 1895: 127 .

Hinda buqueti: Korschefsky 1931: 177 ; Blackwelder 1945: 446; Gordon 1987: 26; Almeida and Milléo 2000: 72 ; Almeida et al. 2007: 66 .

Description. Male holotype. Length 5.2 mm, width 4.0 mm; body large, elongate, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull; pronotum and elytron shiny, lacking alutaceous sculpture. Color yellow, except pronotum, with basal margin narrowly black, black area narrowly extended anteriorly on each side of middle, single black spot on lateral 1/4 on each side, 2 irregular, median black spot at middle of disc; elytron with 6 small, black spots, one elongate spot on humerus, 3 median spots arranged in irregular, transverse row, 2 spots medially on apical declivity ( Fig. 30 ); meso–, metaventrites dark brown. Clypeus with long, dense pubescence. Head punctures large, separated by diameter or less, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by 1 – 3 times diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by less than about 5 times diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on pronotum, separated by diameter or more medially, becoming larger and nearly contiguous laterally. Clypeus strongly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides straight, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia widely flanged, outer margin serrate; sponda shallow, nearly absent ( Fig. 31 ). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated, parallel, extended just beyond middle of prosternum, not joined basally. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without median setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite straight to apical margin of ventrite medially, flattened along margin, outer 1/3 curved forward; ventrites 1–4 with dense, short pubescence, punctures fine, sparse medially, denser laterally; 5th ventrite broadly, weakly emarginate apically, not depressed medially, without tubercle on each side of middle, surface densely punctate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, apical margin deeply emarginate, densely pubescent on each side of emargination, surface with dense, fine punctures. Apical tergite small, finely punctured, pubescent. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, narrowed to asymmetrically rounded apex; paramere Unm, wide ( Fig. 32, 33 ); sipho short, robust, strongly curved, without obvious lateral alae; basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, outer arm elongate, rectangular with accessory piece, basal border deeply emarginate ( Fig. 34, 35 ).

Female. Similar to male except apices of abdominal ventrites 5–6 unmodified. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule very long, slender, bursal cap with 3 arms, apical strut short, unmodified ( Fig. 36 ).

Variation. Length 5.0–6.0 mm, width 4.0– 4.5 mm. Pronotal color pattern highly variable from that described above to having basal black border extended entirely across pronotum and median 1/3 with well-defined, black, M-shaped maculation.

Type locality. Brazil.

Type depository. BMNH (lectotype designated by Almeida and Milléo 2000).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Specimens examined. 7. Brazil. Santa Catarina; Rio Vermelho, Rio Natal. ( BMNH) ( DZUP) ( USNM).

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.