Cyrea beatrice Canepari and Gordon, 2016

Canepari, Claudio, Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2016, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: Systematic revision of the genera Cyrea Gordon and Canepari and Tiphysa Mulsant (Hyperaspidinae: Brachiacanthini), Insecta Mundi 2016 (486), pp. 1-180 : 78

66. Cyrea beatrice Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.4 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, feebly shiny, pronotum and elytron slightly alutaceous, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with narrow, black basomedian macula extended 5/6 distance to anterior pronotal margin, not apically emarginate with yellow; elytron yellow with basal margin broadly black, black border extended laterally nearly to lateral margin, sutural margin with black border triangularly widened on apical declivity, apical and lateral margins narrowly black, black spot on apical declivity extended obliquely forward from lateral margin in lateral 1/3 of elytron ( Fig. 364 ). Head punctures small, separated by less than to about a diameter, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by a diameter or less, elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by about a diameter. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin weakly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Abdomen with 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex emarginate with lateral angle abrupt. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex deeply emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, asymmetrical, slightly narrowed from base to apex, apex emarginate; paramere Psc, wide, slightly widened from base to apex, apex truncate, lower anterior angle projected ( Fig. 365, 366 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, with visible alae at apical 1/12, basal capsule heavily sclerotized, inner arm long, narrow, apex rounded, with short, wide basal projection, outer arm curved, wider and longer than inner arm, with small accessory piece, basal border deeply, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 367, 368 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) Corumbá de Goiás, GO, Brasil, 31.I-3.II.1962, J. Bechyné col. ( DZUP).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is characteristic, as are the male genitalia. This species and C. dolores share the same type of male paramere, and are placed in a group based on that structure. The holotype of C. beatrice has the ventral surface obscured by glue, concealing some features such as the prosternal carinae and protibial structure.

Figures

Figures 354-368. Cyrea spp. 354-358) Cyrea petropolitana. 354) Habitus. 355) Phallobase ventral. 356) Phallobase lateral. 357) Sipho and enlarged siphonal apex. 358) Female genitalia. 359-363) Cyrea castelnaudii. 359) Habitus. 360) Phallobase ventral. 361) Phallobase lateral. 362) Sipho. 363) Enlarged siphonal apex. 364-368) Cyrea beatrice. 364) Habitus. 365) Phallobase ventral. 366) Phallobase lateral. 367) Sipho. 368) Enlarged siphonal apex.