Cyrea marlene Canepari and Gordon

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 : 72

59. Cyrea marlene Canepari and Gordon

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.0 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with large, wide, black basomedian macula extended about 4/5 distance to anterior pronotal margin, projected medially, macula with apex truncate, entire, lateral borders rectangular; elytron black with 3 yellow spots, humeral spot small, triangular, discal spot large, irregularly, obliquely rectangular, apical spot somewhat rounded (Fig. 327); ventral surface with head, anterior 1/3 of prosternum, and metaventrite black, posterior 2/3 of prosternum, mesoventrite, and median spot on metaventrite yellowish red; abdomen yellow except median portions of ventrites 1-4 yellowish brown, middle of basal ventrite with large, yellow spot. Head punctures fine, separated by less than a diameter, each puncture about as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures slightly larger than head punctures, separated by less than to about a diameter, elytral punctures slightly smaller than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron medially, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. 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 weakly 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 weakly arcuate, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibial margin. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/3 of prosternum, connected to base with single carina. Metaventrite with setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex. Ventrites 1-2 with dense, long pubescence and coarse, dense punctures; ventrites 4-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite slightly depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about 3/4 as long as paramere, slender, asymmetrical, sides slightly convergent from base to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, wide, widest in anterior 1/2, lower margin strongly curved to rounded apex (Fig. 328, 329); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apex truncate, outer arm curved, narrower and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border widely, shallowly emarginate (Fig. 330, 331).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Brazil, Para , Boa Vista, 18-IX-1964, A. Mones, 18, UNICO, Pres by Com Inst Ent B M 1974-1, C.I.E. Coll. A. 7175, Hyperaspis muhni Brethes mlt., det. E.A.J. Duffy, 1974. ( BMNH).

Geographical distribution. Brazil.

Remarks. Cyrea marlene may be identified by dorsal color pattern alone, but if the ventral color pattern proves to be consistent then it may also serve as an excellent identification character. Of particular interest is the yellowish red prosternal process and median reddish yellow metaventrite spot.