Cyrea tara 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 : 105-106

93. Cyrea tara Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.0 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface entirely smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with large, black basomedian macula extended more than 1/2 distance to anterior pronotal border, apex of black area widely, deeply incised with yellow; elytron black with 5 large yellow spots, humeral spot elongate, rectangular, median lateral spot projected inward, discal spot elongate oval, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 514 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black; abdomen dark brown, paler toward lateral margin. Head punctures coarse, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures as large as on elytron medially, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 4 eye facets long, not angled forward, apically rounded, yellowish brown. 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, feebly grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with weak oblique angle, basal tooth absent, sponda slightly extended beyond protibial margin. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, parallel to middle of prosternum, not apically joined. 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 not medially depressed, apex widely, deeply emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, strongly asymmetrical, sides curved in basal 3/4, rounded to truncate apex in apical 1/4; paramere Psc, slender throughout, apex rounded ( Fig. 515, 516 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with visible alae in apical 1/6, basal capsule distinctly sclerotized, inner arm short, wide, apex weakly rounded, outer arm wide, slightly longer and wider than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 517, 518 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Peru, Dept. of Cuzco, Paucatambo (sic), Kosnipata Bosque Nublado Reserve, Coll. MVL Barclay , Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge , Montane Wet Forest , 1400m, iv/1999, 13 o 03 21' S71 o 31 44 W, M. V. L. Barclay, BMNH (E) 2001-121. ( BMNH).

Geographical distribution. Peru.

Remarks. This species does not have a distinctive color pattern, but the incomplete, widely separated prosternal carinae are unusual within Cyrea , and male genitalia with a long, strongly asymmetrical basal lobe are not like those found elsewhere within the tessulata group.

Figures

Figures 503-518. Cyrea spp. 503-508) Cyrea vicki. 503) Habitus. 504) Protibia. 505) Phallobase ventral. 506) Phallobase lateral. 507) Sipho. 508) Enlarged siphonal apex. 509-513) Cyrea carla. 509) Habitus. 510) Phallobase ventral. 511) Phallobase lateral. 512) Sipho. 513) Enlarged siphonal apex. 514-518) Cyrea tara. 514) Habitus. 515) Phallobase ventral. 516) Phallobase lateral. 517) Sipho. 518) Enlarged siphonal apex.