Hyperaspis luciae, Gordon & González, 2011

Gordon, Robert D. & González, F. Guillermo, 2011, Additions to the Hyperaspis Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) fauna of South American, descriptions of nine new species, and recognition of Hyperaspis pectoralis Crotch as a valid species, Insecta Mundi 2011 (160), pp. 1-20 : 4

Hyperaspis luciae , new species

( Figure 30-40 )

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.2 mm. Body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface with head weakly alutaceous, pronotum and elytron shiny. Color black except head yellow; anterior 1/5, lateral 1/4 of pronotum, propleuron yellow; elytron entirely black except small, yellow, irregular, obliquely transverse spot at outer apical angle ( Fig. 30-33 ); mouthparts reddish yellow; proleg yellow except basal 1/3 of femur black, mesoleg reddish yellow except trochanter black, metaleg reddish yellow except basal 3/4 of femur black; abdomen dark brown except lateral 1/6 reddish yellow and ventrites 5-6 yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by less than to slightly more than a diameter; punctures on metaventrite dense, larger than on elytra, separated by a diameter or less medially, becoming contiguous in lateral 1/2; punctures on basal abdominal ventrite coarse medially, separated by less than a diameter, becoming fine, more scattered in lateral 1/3, punctures on ventrites 2-6 fine, dense, separated by a diameter or less. Clypeal apex shallowly emarginate, clypeus and frons joined at abrupt angle. Epipleuron wide, grooved medially, slightly descending externally, femoral depressions deep. Antenna with 10 articles ( Fig. 35 ). Protibia narrow, not flanged. Prosternum with intercoxal carinae narrowly separated at apex, weakly convergent toward base, joined before base and connected to base by single stem. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite broadly arcuate, reaching posterior ventrite margin, rounded 7/8 distance to lateral margin ( Fig. 34 ). Fifth ventrite broadly, deeply emarginate apically; 6 th ventrite with shallow, narrow, apical emargination. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, apex wide, flat, slightly obliquely angled, one margin sinuate; paramere long, slender, very slightly narrowed from base to apex, apex rounded ( Fig. 38-40 ); sipho long, slender, with apical membranous area, basal capsule with inner arm very long, curved, wide, outer arm short, basal border deeply emarginate ( Fig. 36, 37 ).

Female. Not known.

Type material. Holotype male: Corcovado - GB Brasil, 15-IX-1, J.S. Moure, Alvarenga e Seabra ( DZUP).

Remarks. This is the fourth Hyperaspis species with black elytra and a single, apical yellow spot on each elytron. It differs from all others by the 10 articled antenna and differences in male genitalia, particularly in the apically wide, nearly truncate basal lobe and highly modified siphonal capsule.

Hyperaspis luciae belongs in the donzeli group because of the 10 articled antenna. It differs from all other species in that group by having black elytra with a single yellow spot on each elytron.

Etymology. This species is named for Dr. Lúcia Massutti de Almeida of the DZUP, an esteemed colleague in Coccinellidae systematics.

Figures

Figure 30-40. Hyperaspis luciae. 30-33) Habitus views. 34) Abdomen. 36-40) Male genitalia. 36) Sipho. 37) Enlarged siphonal apex. 38) Lateral view of phallobase. 39) Oblique view of phallobase. 40) Ventral view of phallobase.