Cyrea lillie 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 : 118-119

106. Cyrea lillie Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.0 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellowish red except head with small brown spot at lateral margin of clypeus, small brown spot near eye at apex of frons, and small brown spot at base of eye; pronotum with small, transverse, sinuate brown spot medially in apical 1/2; elytron black except humeral spot yellowish red with narrow, yellowish red vitta extended posteriorly along lateral margin to apical declivity ( Fig. 590 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black, meso- and metafemur dark brown; abdomen brown except median portions of ventrites 1-3 dark brown. Head punctures fine, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture smaller than an eye facet; pronotal punctures slightly larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about 3 times a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures much larger than on elytron medially, separated by less than a diameter, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus slightly emarginate apically, nearly truncate, 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 narrow, grooved, not 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, nearly parallel, joined at basal 1/5 of prosternum, connected to base with 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. Ventrites 1-3 with dense, short pubescence and coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 4-6 with dense, fine punctures; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, symmetrical, sides curved from base to truncate apex; paramere Psc, long, narrow, slightly curved, about same width from near base to rounded apex ( Fig. 591, 592 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/7, basal capsule with inner arm short, slender, apex slightly rounded, outer arm wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border abruptly, triangularly emarginate ( Fig. 593, 594 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Colombia) Colomba., Bogota., illegible line. ( ZMHB).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Remarks. Cyrea lillie has a unique dorsal color pattern that separates it from other species in the genus. In addition, the dull, alutaceous pronotum has punctures so minute as to be nearly invisible, and the basal lobe of the male genitalia is longer than the paramere.

Figures

Figures 590-607. Cyrea spp. 590-594) Cyrea lillie. 590) Habitus. 591) Phallobase ventral. 592) Phallobase lateral. 593) Sipho. 594) Enlarged siphonal apex. 595-601) Cyrea languida. 595) Habitus. 596) Protibia. 597) Phallobase ventral. 598) Phallobase lateral. 599) Sipho. 600) Enlarged siphonal apex. 601) Female genitalia. 602-607) Cyrea arrowi. 602) Habitus. 603) Phallobase ventral. 604) Phallobase lateral. 605) Sipho. 606) Enlarged siphonal apex. 607) Female genitalia.