Coeliaria bernardinensis ( Brèthes, 1925 ) Churata-Salcedo & Almeida, 2017

Churata-Salcedo, Julissa M. & Almeida, Lúcia M., 2017, Review of Coeliaria (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chnoodini), Zoologia (e 19866) 34, pp. 1-11 : 4-7

Coeliaria bernardinensis ( Brèthes, 1925) , comb. nov.

Figs 29–37, 55

Exoplectra bernardinensis Brèthes, 1925: 8 (original description); Korschefsky 1932: 227 (catalog); Denier 1939: 581 (list); Blackwelder 1945: 450 (checklist); Costa et al. 2008: 365 (revision, Brazilian species).

Redescription. Male. Length 3.08–4.00 mm, width

2.58–3.83 mm. Body rounded, with fine pubescence, thick, whitish, with thin, sparse punctuation; integument black with blue or green metallic reflections ( Figs 29–32). Head, antennae and mouthparts dark or reddish ( Fig. 30). Pronotum transverse, narrower than elytra, with emarginated anterior margin, straight lateral margin, rounded anteriorly, and subsinuous posterior margin ( Fig. 31), hypomera with deep fovea. Prosternal process with sub-quadrangular apex, without carina, as wide as long. Scutellum black. Elytra dark without spots ( Figs 29, 32); epipleura narrowing towards apex, with fovea for reception of femoral apex ( Fig. 30). Meso- and metaventrite black. Legs black, with flattened femora and tibiae with acute angulation at the outer margin. Abdomen with central region of first ventrite blackish, others lighter, with oblique line ( Fig. 33). Genitalia symmetrical: tegmen with symmetrical penis guide, wide at base and narrow at apex, which is slightly recurved; parameres with long bristles slightly larger than penis guide ( Figs 34, 35). Penis sclerotized, with acuminate and recurved apex, developed penis capsule ( Fig. 36).

Female. Similar to male. Coxites elongated, longer than wide, sub-triangular with long bristles ( Fig.37). Spermatheca more or less recurved, C-shaped, with undeveloped ramus ( Fig. 37).

Type material. According to Gordon (1987) the holotype would be found in British Museum of Natural History, London, England. However, Horn and Kahle (1935 –1937) indicated that the type material was deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN), Buenos Aires, Argentina, but it was not possible to study this material, because MACN does not lend material for study.

Material examined. Brazil. Alagoas: Maceió , VI. 1993, Lima, I.M.M., 1 female ( DZUP 131993 ) ; Goiás: Dianópolis , 11–14.I.1962, J. Bechyné col., 1 specimen ( DZUP 192029 ) ; Corumbá de Goiás, 5. II.1962, J. Bechyné col., 1 specimen ( DZUP 192042 ) ; Jataí, Cerrado , Faz. Nova Orlandia, I. 964, Martins, Morgante and Silva, 1 specimen ( DZUP 192033 ) ; Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte (Campus-UFMG) 17.VI.81, C13, N. S. Domingos, 1 male ( DZUP 192032 ) ; 07.V.81, B17, N.S. Domingos, 1 specimen ( DZUP 192037 ) ; 06.XII.82, B17, N.S. Domingos, 1 male ( DZUP 192030 ) ; Espírito Santo: Conceição da Barra ( BR 16 ) , 21/IX/68, C. and C.T. Elias leg., 1 specimen ( DZUP 192036 ) ; Guarapari , IX-1960, M. Alvarenga leg., 1 specimen ( DZUP 192043 ) ; IX-1960, M. Alvarenga leg., 1 male ( DZUP 192045 ) ; IX-1960, M. Alvarenga leg., 1 male ( DZUP 192025 ) ; IX-1960, M. Alvarenga leg., 1 specimen ( DZUP 192040 ) ; IX-1960, M. Alvarenga leg., 1 specimen ( DZUP 192035 ) ; XI-61, M. Alvarenga, 1 specimen ( DZUP 192044 ) ; XI-61, M. Alvarenga, 1 male ( DZUP 192034 ) ; XI-61, M. Alvarenga, 1 specimen ( DZUP 192038 ) ; XI-61, M. Alvarenga, 1 specimen ( DZUP 192039 ) ; Mato Grosso: Chapada dos Guimarães, 20-I-1961, MT/ J. and B. Bechyné, 1 specimen ( DZUP 187185 ) ; 23-I-1961, MT/J. and B. Bechyné, 1 specimen ( DZUP 146701 ) .

Geographical distribution. Brazil and Paraguay ( Fig. 55).

Remarks. Coeliaria bernardinensis was first described as Exoplectra bernardinensis , but is herein transferred to Coeliaria based on the presence of a deep fovea in the hypomera, which characterizes Coeliaria . It differs from the other species of Coeliaria by its small size and pattern of genitalia.