Cyrea glenda 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 : 23-24

8. Cyrea glenda Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.5 mm, width 1.9 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with brown basomedian macula extended 3/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula projected medially, apex faintly emarginate with yellow, side sinuate; elytron brown with 3 yellow spots, yellow lateral vitta extended from base to apical declivity, vitta widely connected at middle with large yellow spot occupying most of elytron, apical spot irregularly oval ( Fig. 38 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, metaventrite dark brown, mesoventrite reddish brown; abdomen yellowish brown except median 2/3 of ventrites 1-3 dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than to twice 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 a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 2/3. 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 slightly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin arcuate, smooth, sponda extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/3 of prosternum, single carina extended to base. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex. Ventrites 1-3 with dense, long pubescence and coarse, dense punctures; ventrites 4-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex emarginate; 6th ventrite deeply depressed medially, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe slen- der, about 5/6 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent from base to obliquely truncate apex; paramere Unm, slender, widened from base to rounded apex ( Fig. 39, 40 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, square, apex feebly emarginate, outer arm narrowed from base to apex, narrower and slightly longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border broadly, shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 41, 42 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Brazil, Bowring.63.47, jocosa Muls. ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species may be recognized by the unique dorsal color pattern, which is not shared with any other in the tredecimguttata group.

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.