Cyrea constance 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 : 117-118

105. Cyrea constance Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.4 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head and pronotum slightly alutaceous, shiny, elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, narrow basomedian macula extended 3/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with apex not indented with yellow, lateral borders widely emarginate; elytron black with 3 large yellow spots, humeral spot elongately triangular, single wide, median vitta present from near basal border of elytron posteriorly onto apical declivity, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 584 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown except median portions of ventrites 1-3 brown. Head punctures fine, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron medially, separated by less than a diameter, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. 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. Epipleuron wide, grooved, weakly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin weakly arcuate, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibial margin. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent to basal 1/5 of prosternum, connected to base with single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex. Ventrites 1-6 with dense, short pubescence and fine, dense punctures; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate with lateral angle slightly produced, apically rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, wide, asymmetrical, sides curved in basal 5/6, apical 1/6 narrow, apex truncate; paramere Psc, wide, widened from base to rounded apex ( Fig. 585, 586 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, curved anteriorly at apex, outer arm curved, wider and slightly longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 587, 588 ).

Female. Similar to male except head entirely dark brown, pronotum with basomedian macula extended to anterior pronotal margin, elytron without humeral spot. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, wide, about same width from base to rounded apex of cornu ( Fig. 589 ).

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) 4436, Hist.-Coll. ( Coleoptera ), Nr. 4436, Hyperaspis frenata N., Para, Sieber, Zool. Mus. Berlin. ( ZMHB). Paratype; 1, same data as holotype ( ZMHB).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Remarks. This species is quite similar to C. georgia except for a differing elytral color pattern; sipho of male genitalia with basal border of capsule shallowly, widely emarginate; and Brazilian type locality.

Figures

Figures 572-589. Cyrea spp. 572-576) Cyrea georgia. 572) Habitus. 573) Phallobase ventral. 574) Phallobase lateral. 575) Sipho. 576) Enlarged siphonal apex. 577-583) Cyrea ruizi. 577) Habitus. 578) Proleg. 579) Phallobase ventral. 580) Phallobase lateral. 581) Sipho. 582) Enlarged siphonal apex. 583) Female genitalia. 584-589) Cyrea constance. 584) Habitus. 585) Phallobase ventral. 586) Phallobase lateral. 587) Sipho. 588) Enlarged siphonal apex. 589) Female spermathecal capsule.