Cyrea terry 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 : 61-62

47. Cyrea terry Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.2 mm, width 2.3 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head slightly alutaceous, weakly shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, wide, dark brown basomedian macula extended 4/5 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula protruding medially, anterior border entire, anterolateral 1/3 of pronotum yellow; elytron dark brown with 5 yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot small, triangular, scutellar spot irregularly rounded, apex “ragged,” mediolateral spot slightly removed from lateral margin, irregularly oval, discal spot round, apical spot transversely oval with anterior border entire. Margins of all spots somewhat “ragged,” not clearly defined ( Fig. 260 ); ventral surface reddish yellow except meso- and metaventrite reddish brown; abdomen yellow. Head punctures small, 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 3 times a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by less than to about a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 1/3. Clypeus emarginate apically, 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 narrow, grooved, slightly descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/4, 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, dense punctures medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex weakly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent in basal 3/4, apical 1/4 curved to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, lower margin produced in apical 5/6, lower margin of paramere curved upward to rounded apex ( Fig. 261, 262 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm long, narrow, narrowed before widened apex, outer arm wider and about as long as inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 263, 264 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Bolivia, Mapiri. ( ZMHB).

Geographical distribution. Bolivia.

Remarks. The elytral spots are not crisply defined as is usual in species of Cyrea , borders are hazy or appear “ragged.” Male genitalia have the paramere comparatively slender, but still distinctly produced on the lower margin.

Figures

Figures 254-270. Cyrea spp. 254-259) Cyrea ella. 254) Habitus. 255) Phallobase ventral. 256) Phallobase lateral. 257) Sipho. 258) Enlarged siphonal apex. 259) Female genitalia. 260-264) Cyrea terry. 260) Habitus. 261) Phallobase ventral. 262) Phallobase lateral. 263) Sipho. 264) Enlarged siphonal apex. 265-270) Cyrea wilma. 265) Habitus. 266) Phallobase ventral. 267) Phallobase lateral. 268) Sipho. 269) Enlarged siphonal apex. 270) Female bursal cap, apical strut, and spermathecal capsule.