Cyrea jeanne Canepari and Gordon, 2016

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 : 94-95

81. Cyrea jeanne Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.0 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head alutaceous, dull, pronotum and elytron weakly alutaceous, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with narrow, short, brown basomedian macula with sinuate anterior margin, middle of pronotum with small, brown, comma shaped spot on each side of middle; elytron yellow with 5 large, more or less oval yellow spots occupying most of elytron, spots divided by narrow brown bands, scutellar spot narrowly connected to discal spot, discal spot connected to apical spot ( Fig. 447 ); ventral surface yellow except meso- and metaventrite pale reddish brown; abdomen yellow except ventrites 2-3 yellowish brown medially. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by about a diameter medially, becoming coarser, separated by less than a diameter laterally. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 6 eye facets long, slightly angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin rounded, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with slight oblique angle, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined at basal 3/8 of prosternum. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, short pubescence and coarse, sparse punctures; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite not depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite slightly depressed medially, apex shallowly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, asymmetrical, sides weakly convergent from base to rounded apex; paramere Psc, slightly widened toward apex, apex rounded ( Fig. 448, 449 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/6, basal capsule slightly sclerotized, inner arm short, wide, apically truncate, outer arm straight, narrower and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 450, 451 ).

Female. Similar to male except clypeus slightly darker than head, with narrow posterior projection from each side of clypeus. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, basal 1/3 enlarged, widened, cornu bulbous; bursal cap narrowly rectangular, with 3 sclerotized arms, apical strut long, narrow, slightly curved ( Fig. 452 ).

Variation. Length 2.4 to 2.7 mm, width 1.8 to 2.0 mm. Pronotum with median dark area sometimes enlarged with basomedian macula and anterior comma shaped spot united by narrow, dark vitta, elytron varies from nearly entirely yellow because of reduction of dark separating bands, or with bands dark brown, distinct, and completely separating all 5 yellow spots.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, Honda , Tolima, 13 Jun 1965, J.A. Ramos Collector. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 37, 1, same data as holotype ( USNM) ; 1, Columbien, Antioquia, 700m, Rio Cauca, VI..63, leg. P. Schneble ( USNM) ; 1, Colombia, Tol., Armero , malaise trap, 26-30 I 1977, Peyton & Suarez ( USNM) ; 1, Colombia, Anolaima, Cund. , 14 Aug 1965, J.A. Ramos Collector ( USNM) ; 1, Colombia, Espinal, Tol , 17.II.41, alt. 438 m, Murillo No 5419 ( USNM) ; 3, Colombia, Fusagasuga, Cund. , 6 Jun 1965, 11 Sept 1965, 11 Oct 1965, J.A. Ramos Collector ( USNM) ; 1, Colombia, Garzon , Huila, 26.III.39, alt. 888, Murillo No 5075 ( USNM) ; 5, Colombia, Girardot, Cund. , 8 Aug 1965, J.A. Ramos Collector ( USNM) ; 5, ( Colombia) V. Medellin , en citrus, en maiz, Oct. 1942, ene 1943, Jun 1943, Gallego ( USNM) ; 8, Colombia, Melgar, Cund. , 6 Jun 1965, 12 Jun 1965, J.A. Ramos Collector ( USNM) ; 1, Colombia, Villeta, Cund. , 28 Aug 1965, J.A. Ramos Collector ( USNM) ; 8, Columbien, Honda, Am Magdalena, O. Thieme ( ZMHB) ; 1, Columbien, Rio Magdalena, O. Thieme S. ( ZMHB) .

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Remarks. This pale species is similar in most regards except color to C. fasciata and C. laurie , but male genitalia differ somewhat among the 3 species. That and the consistently pale color of C. jeanne causes the species differentiation.

Figures

Figures 436-452. Cyrea spp. 436-440) Cyrea ormanceayi. 436) Habitus. 437) Phallobase ventral. 438) Phallobase lateral. 439) Sipho. 440) Enlarged siphonal apex. 441-446) Cyrea fasciata. 441) Habitus. 442) Phallobase ventral. 443) Phallobase lateral. 444) Sipho. 445) Enlarged siphonal apex. 446) Female genitalia. 447-452) Cyrea jeanne. 447) Habitus. 448) Phallobase ventral. 449) Phallobase lateral. 450) Sipho. 451) Enlarged siphonal apex. 452) Female genitalia.