Cyrea renifera (Kirsch) 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 : 84-85

72. Cyrea renifera (Kirsch) , new combination

Cleothera renifera Kirsch, 1876:122 .

Hyperaspis renifera: Korschefsky 1931:195 ; Blackwelder 1945:448.

Description. Male. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.6 mm; body rounded, convex. Dorsal surface smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with short, wide, dark brown basomedian macula extended 1/5 distance to anterior pronotal margin, apex of macula widely emarginate medially, with lateral 1/3 anteriorly widened, 2 dark brown, triangular spots at middle of pronotum, 1 spot on each side of middle; elytron with outer margin narrowly brown, sutural border slightly widened in median 1/3, 4 small, elongate brown spots present, spot on humeral callus elongately triangular, discal spot elongate oval, posterolateral spot triangular, posteromedian spot comma shaped (Fig. 397); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites dark brown; abdomen yellow except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-4 brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about 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 1 to about 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by a diameter or less medially, becoming nearly contiguous in lateral 1/3. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 5 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 wide, slightly grooved, descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin nearly straight, smooth, sponda extended beyond angle (Fig. 398). Carinae on prosternal process narrowly separated at apex, convergent toward base, joined anterior to middle of prosternum, single carina extended to prosternal base. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite slightly flattened along posterior ventrite margin, extended forward at apex, ventrite coarsely 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 convergent from base nearly to apex, apex rounded,; paramere slightly Psc, sides nearly parallel from base to weakly rounded apex, apex nearly truncate (Fig. 399, 400); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule weakly sclerotized, with inner arm long, wide, apex irregularly obliquely truncate, outer arm slightly wider and about as long as inner arm, with small accessory piece, basal border deeply, widely emarginate (Fig. 401, 402).

Female. Similar to male except genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, of uniform size; bursal cap weakly rounded, with 2 narrow sclerotized arms, apical strut short, narrow, narrowed from base to apex (Fig. 403).

Variation. Length 3.0 to 3.1 mm, width 2.5 to 2.6 mm. Size of pronotal and elytral spots slightly variable.

Type locality. Peru.

Type depository. SNSD (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Brazil, Peru.

Specimens examined. 7. Brazil. Para; Santarem. Peru. Satipo. ( SNSD) ( USNM).

Remarks. Cyrea renifera is characterized by the dorsal color pattern having each elytron with 4 small spots, the anteromedian spot distinctly comma shaped.

The Kirsch type specimen in the SNSD collection labeled “Poznz Coll Kirsch(green paper/ renifera Kschn (handwritten)/ Hyperaspis renifera Kirsch (handwritten)(green label)/Typus(red label/ Hyperaspis (Cleoth)renifera Kirsch det. R. Korschefsky 1944/Staatl. Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden” is here designated the lectotype.