Cyrea pearl 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 : 37-38

22. Cyrea pearl Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.3 mm; body somewhat rounded, oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, wide, dark brown basomedian macula extended 2/3 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with wide projection on each side of middle, projections widely separated; elytron dark brown with 5 large yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each with apical spot, humeral spot rectangular, scutellar spot irregularly rounded, mediolateral spot projected inward, feebly connected to apical spot, discal spot somewhat oval, apical spot transversely rectangular, anterior border of spot slightly emarginate ( Fig. 118 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, 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 a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by less than 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 6 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, descending externally, deeply foveolate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with wide oblique angle, outer margin arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle ( Fig. 119 ). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated apically, convergent, joined at base of prosternum. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with indistinct setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrites 1-2 with dense, short pubescence and coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 3-6 with long, dense pubescence throughout, punctures fine, dense; 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 about 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent to apical 1/4, apical 1/4 curved to rounded apex; paramere Pav, widened from base to apex, upper margin broadly emarginate medially, obliquely truncate in apical 1/3, with wide projection “ear” based on truncate area, apex of projection narrowly, heavily sclerotized ( Fig. 120, 121 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, apical 1/2 lost, basal capsule with inner arm wide, slightly elongate, apex truncate, inner arm about as long and as wide as inner arm, with accessory piece ( Fig. 122 ), basal border widely, shallowly emarginate.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, 10mi. S. Cali, Valle , Feb. 23, 1970, H. F. Howden. ( USNM).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Remarks. Cyrea pearl differs from the other similarly marked species in this group by pronotum with basomedian macula reduced to a narrow, basal brown band with large, brown anterior extensions; and paramere of male genitalia having a wide anterolateral projection.

Figures

Figures 118-133. Cyrea spp. 118-122) Cyrea pearl. 118) Habitus. 119) Protibia. 120) Phallobase ventral. 121) Phallobase lateral. 122) Sipho (apex lost). 123 -127. Cyrea arlene. 123) Habitus. 124) Phallobase ventral. 125) Phallobase lateral. 126) Sipho. 127) Enlarged siphonal apex. 128-133. Cyrea maureen. 128) Habitus. 129) Protibia. 130) Phallobase ventral. 131) Phallobase lateral. 132) Sipho. 133) Enlarged siphonal apex.