Calloeneis robyn Gordon and Hanley, 2020

Gordon, Robert D., F, Guillermo González & Hanley, Guy A., 2020, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), part XX: systematic revision of South American Calloeneis Grote (Cryptognathini), Insecta Mundi 2020 (766), pp. 1-25 : 12-13

14. Calloeneis robyn Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.6 mm; dorsal surface shiny; head slightly alutaceous. Color black; head yellow; pronotum yellow; elytron black except anterolateral angle yellow, yellow area diagonal from base posteriorly across callus to lateral margin ( Fig. 59 ); venter yellow except median 1/2 of metasternum, apical 1/4 of epipleuron dark brown; abdomen brown except ventrite 5 yellow. Head with punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures small separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by up to twice a diameter; prosternal punctures fine, separated by less than a diameter, mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by about a diameter; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less; abdominal ventrites 1, 2 with fine punctures separated by up to three times diameter medially, ventrites 2–4 finely, densely punctured medially; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons narrow, parallel sided, slightly wider than eye, clypeal apex weakly arcuate, nearly truncate ( Fig. 60 ); eye canthus short, about half width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side curved, extended from apex of intercoxal process to lateral margin of prosternum. Epipleuron not descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite curved, extended 3/4 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia with penis guide 3/4 as long as paramere, slender, tapered from base to abruptly rounded apex; paramere slender, weakly curved, apex rounded ( Fig. 61, 62 ); penis slender, apex briefly attenuate, basal capsule robust, inner arm narrowed to acutely rounded apex, outer arm short, tapered to rounded apex ( Fig. 63 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male: Guyana, Georgetown , Botanic gdns., 11.VI.1999, R.G. Booth, BMNH (E) 2001-132 ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species is characterized by a mostly black elytron with contrasting yellow anterolateral macula.

Figures

Figures 54–68. Calloeneis spp. 54–58) Calloeneis johnnie. 54) Habitus. 55) Frons. 56) Penis guide ventral. 57) Penis guide lateral. 58) Penis. 59–63) Calloeneis robyn. 59) Habitus. 60) Frons. 61) Penis guide ventral. 62) Penis guide lateral.63) Penis.64–68) Calloeneis francis. 64) Habitus.65) Frons.66) Penis guide ventral.67) Penis guide lateral. 68) Spermathecal capsule.