Cyrea noticollis (Mulsant) Canepari & Gordon & Hanley, 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 : 82-83

70. Cyrea noticollis (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera noticollis Mulsant, 1850: 588 .

Hyperaspis noticollis: Korschefsky 1931:192 ; Blackwelder 1945:447; Gordon 1987: 27.

Description. Male. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.3 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head slightly alutaceous, shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, dark brown basomedian macula extended 1/4 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula widely emarginate with yellow medially, each end projected anteriorly, 2 dark brown, somewhat triangular spots present at middle of pronotum, 1 spot on each side of middle; elytron with dark brown basal, sutural, and apical borders, sutural border wide, slightly widened anterior to middle of elytron, 4 dark brown spots present, humeral spot narrowly connected to pronotal base, discal spot J-shaped, narrowly connected to humeral spot, lateral spot on apical declivity irregularly elongate oval, inner spot on apical declivity elongate oval (Fig. 386); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites brown; abdomen yellow except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-3 brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures slightly larger than head punctures, separated by a diameter or less, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to about a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by less than a diameter, becoming larger in lateral 1/3. 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 straight, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin curved, smooth, sponda extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined at basal 1/3, single carina extended to prosternal base. Metaventrite without trace of sparse setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without sparse setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite slightly flattened along posterior ventrite margin, extended forward at apex, ventrite coarsely, sparsely punctured medially, with small, dense punctures laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, dense; 5th ventrite slightly depressed medially, apical margin feebly emarginate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, slightly depressed medially, apical margin weakly emarginate, angle on each side of emargination rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 2/3 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides curved from base nearly to apex, apex obliquely truncate; paramere Psc, narrowed from base to abruptly rounded apex (Fig. 387, 388); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, with lateral alae at apical 1/6, basal capsule with inner arm long, narrow, apex obliquely rounded, outer arm wider and shorter than inner arm, with small accessory piece, basal border widely emarginate (Fig. 389, 390).

Female. Similar to male except head with clypeus and margin near eye dark brown, pronotum with median basal spots narrowly connected to anterior pronotal margin. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, basal 1/3 widened, median 1/3 narrow, cornu widened with small, bulbous apex; bursal cap nearly rectangular, with 3 heavily sclerotized arms, apical strut long, slender, widened from base to apex (Fig. 391).

Variation. Length 2.4 to 3.0 mm, width 1.7 to 2.5 mm. Size of pronotal and elytral spots slightly variable, pronotal spots sometimes narrowly connected, color of all spots varies from brown to black,

elytron with humeral and discal spots narrowly connected or discrete, discal spot occasionally divided into 2 spots, dark brown areas on ventral surface sometimes black.

Type locality. Colombia.

Type depository. MNHL (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Colombia, Peru, Venezuela.

Specimens examined. 152. Colombia. Nearly all Colombian specimens were from various localities in the Department of Cundinamarca. Peru. One specimen from Cuzco, Machu Picchu. Venezuela. One specimen labeled “Maracay.” ( BMNH) ( MNHL) ( ZMHB) ( USNM).

Remarks. Cyrea noticollis has a distinctive dorsal color pattern that will nearly always suffice for identification. Both male and female genitalia will also distinguish this species.

The lectotype of C. noticollis in the MNHL is labeled “ Colombia, Reiche.” A single specimen in the MNHP lacking data of any kind is probably a paralectotype because Mulsant (1895) listed the Paris Museum as having one of his types. Because this specimen lacks data it is not so designated. One type specimen in the BMNH labeled “ Syntype (blue bordered disc)/Colomb. (green disc, handwritten)/5771 (blue disc)/Noticollis Dej. Muls./ Colombie /Named by Mulsant” is designated a paralectotype. Mulsant (1850) had examples of C. noticollis from several collections which indicates it is or was a frequently collected taxon. Gorham (1894) recorded this species from Central America. Specimens seen by Gorham were borrowed from the BMNH and proved to be a species belonging to the emiliae group, a species not known to occur in South America.