Cyrea gertrude 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 : 22-23

7. Cyrea gertrude Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.3 mm; body oval, somewhat rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head weakly alutaceous, slightly shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except head with black vertex; pronotum with small, black basomedian macula extended slightly more than 1/2 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula deeply emarginate with yellow medially; elytron dark brown with 5 small yellow spots, humeral spot irregularly rounded, scutellar spot round, mediolateral spot on lateral margin irregularly rounded, discal spot slightly oval, apical spot irregularly rectangular ( Fig. 34 ); ventral surface with head black, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites brown; abdomen brownish yellow. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large 3 eye facets; pronotal punctures slightly larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to about a diameter; metaventral punctures smaller than on elytron, separated by about a diameter medially, larger, denser in lateral 1/3. Clypeus slightly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 4 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron wide, grooved, slightly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with oblique angle as wide as remainder of protibia, outer margin curved, smooth, sponda not extended beyond oblique angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/6 of prosternum, connected to prosternal base by single carina. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite slightly flattened medially, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and coarse punctures medially becoming smaller and denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex weakly emarginate with lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex deeply, widely emarginate, lateral angle broadly produced, rounded. Genitalia with basal lobe short, 1/2 or less length of paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base to rounded apex; paramere Unm, wide throughout, widened from base to abruptly rounded apex ( Fig. 35, 36 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/ 2, without visible alae, apex with long, slender, anterior sclerotized filament about 1/5 as long as remain- der of sipho; bursal cap with inner arm short, narrow, apex slightly rounded, outer arm longer and wider than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly, widely emarginate ( Fig. 37 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Background color of elytron varies from dark brown to almost black.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, Las Tibayas, O. Thieme (printed). ( ZMHB) . Paratype:1, same data as holotype (hand written) ( ZMHB).

Remarks. Males of this species are quite distinct because of the somewhat rounded body form, dark brown elytral background, yellow and pale brown ventral surface, widely expanded outer protibial margin; apical tergite with apex widely, deeply emarginate with broadly expanded, rounded lateral angle; and sipho of male genitalia with long, slender, apical extension.

Figures

Figures 34-48. Cyrea spp. 34-37) Cyrea gertrude. 34) Habitus. 35) Phallobase ventral. 36) Phallobase lateral. 37) Sipho. 38-42) Cyrea glenda. 38) Habitus. 39) Phallobase ventral. 40) Phallobase lateral. 41) Sipho. 42) Enlarged siphonal apex. 43-48) Cyrea viola. 43) Habitus. 44) Phallobase ventral. 45) Phallobase lateral. 46) Sipho. 47) Enlarged siphonal apex. 48) Female genitalia.