Calloeneis krista 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 : 10

10. Calloeneis krista Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.7 mm; dorsal surface shiny, head distinctly alutaceous, elytron with faint trace of microsculpture. Color brownish red; head yellow; pronotum entirely black; elytron with humeral angle including callus black, apical declivity black, apex of black macula sinuate ( Fig. 38 ); prosternum, metafemur, posterior 1/2 of mesofemur black; mesosternum, median 1/3 of metasternum yellowish brown, remainder of venter yellow; abdomen yellowish brown except median 1/3 of basal ventrite brown. Head with dense punctures separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by up to twice a diameter; prosternal punctures small, indistinct, separated by about a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter, metasternal punctures large, separated by one to three times a diameter medially, absent in lateral 1/3; abdominal ventrites 1, 2 with fine punctures separated by up to three times a diameter medially, ventrites 2–4 finely, densely punctured medially; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons parallel sided medially, 1.2 times as wide as eye, clypeal apex truncate ( Fig. 39 ); 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 longer than paramere, slender, tapered from base to abruptly rounded apex, flanked on each side with slender appendix extended 3/4 length of penis guide; paramere slender, apex rounded ( Fig. 40, 41 ); penis robust, apex lost, basal capsule slender, flat, inner arm apically bifid, outer arm slender, projected ( Fig. 42 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Ar. (Aragua), Portachuelo Pass, June 22–30,1967, RW Poole, 1100m. ( USNM).

Figures

Figures 38–53. Calloeneis spp.38–42) Calloeneis krista. 38) Habitus.39) Frons.40) Penis guide ventral.41) Penis guide lateral. 42) Penis. 43–48) Calloeneis roxanne. 43) Habitus. 44) Frons. 45) Penis guide ventral. 46) Penis guide lateral. 47) Penis. 48) Spermathecal capsule. 49–53) Calloeneis angelica. 49) Habitus. 50) Frons. 51) Penis guide ventral. 52) Penis guide lateral. 53) Penis.