Hinda ecuadorica 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 : 15

4. Hinda ecuadorica Gordon and Canepari , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.3 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface smooth, shiny. Color yellow except clypeus brown; pronotum with wide, basomedial black macula, macula extended more than 1/2 distance to apical pronotal border, apex of macula with V- shaped yellow indentation; elytron black with 4 large yellow spots, without humeral spot ( Fig. 56 ); base of head, prosternum, meso–, metaventrites black, pro– and mesotrochanters brown, metatrochanter, basal 3/4 of femur brown; abdomen brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than diameter, each puncture as large as 3 eye facets; pronotal punctures as large as head punctures, separated by less than to 2 times diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 times diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than diameter medially, slightly larger and separated by less than diameter laterally. Clypeus apically truncate, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, dorsally ridged, angled forward, apically rounded, brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides straight, basal and anterior angles rounded, 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; sponda pronounced, extended beyond protibial flange. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with long setae on lateral portions of median projection, projection glabrous medially. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated apically, feebly convergent to middle of prosternum, joined basally. Abdomen with primary pores laterally between ventrites 4–5 small, slightly emarginating apex of ventrite 4, forming shallow 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; 5th abdominal ventrite deeply depressed medially in apical 3/4, depression densely, finely punctate, without tubercle on each side of middle, without dense, long pubescence on apical margin, apical margin weakly emarginate; 6th ventrite narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, with indistinct, apical ridge, acute, median tubercle set back from weakly emarginate apex. Apical tergite finely, densely punctate, without median groove. Genitalia with basal lobe short, less than 1/2 length of paramere, wide, apically triangular, symmetrical, sides nearly parallel; paramere wide in basal 1/2, abruptly narrowed in apical 1/2, curved ( Fig. 57 ); sipho robust, curved in basal 1/2, with small, visible lateral alae at apex, basal capsule small, inner arm short, narrow, constricted medially, outer arm short, wide, as long as inner arm, rectangular, with small accessory piece ( Fig. 58, 59 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male. Ecuador, Sucumbios, San Rafael Falls , 1100m, 0060 o.24’S/ 077 o 35.31’W, VIII-5/6-1988, Fred. G. Andrews ( CSCA).

Remarks. This species differs from its congeners by its small size, 4 large yellow spots on each elytron, lack of humeral spot in male, and male genitalia with short basal lobe. In addition, all other known species of Hinda are from Colombia, whereas this species has an Ecuadorian type locality.

Figures

Figures 49–59. 49–55) Hinda designata. 49) Habitus. 50) Protibia. 51) Phallobase, ventral. 52) Enlarged siphonal apex. 53) Sipho. 54) Female genitalia. 55) Abdomen. 56–59) Hinda ecuadorica. 56) Habitus. 57) Phallobase ventral. 58) Enlarged siphonal apex. 59) Sipho.