Cyrea moritzi (Mader) 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 : 126-127

114. Cyrea moritzi (Mader) , new combination

Hyperaspis moritzi Mader, 1954:128 .

Description. Male lectotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.1 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface smooth, shiny, lacking alutaceous sculpture Color yellow except pronotum with median portion of basomedian black area extended 3/4 distance to anterior margin, median projection of macula rectangular, apically truncate; elytron with narrow black border on sutural margin, border slightly, triangularly widened anterior to middle and on apical declivity, 5 small black spots present, elongated spot on humeral callus, anterior spot on lateral margin projected inward, discal spot irregularly round, posterolateral spot projected inward, nearly reaching obliquely triangular apical spot ( Fig. 637 ); ventral surface black except mouthparts, prothoracic hypomeron, epipleuron yellow, legs yellow except metafemur brown with yellow apex. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as 2 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by less than to about a diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by slightly more than a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by several times a diameter medially, becoming larger and separated by less than a diameter near lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin with trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin slightly curved, sponda weakly extended beyond angle ( Fig. 638 ). Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/3 of prosternum, single carina extended to base. Metaventrite without median setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex; ventrites 1-3 with sparse, long pubescence, punctures coarse, sparse, ventrites 4-6 with fine, dense punctures; 5th ventrite not depressed medially, apical margin widely, weakly emarginate medially; 6th ventrite short, narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, apical border slightly emarginate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe asymmetrical, nearly as long as paramere, sides parallel in basal 3/4, apical 1/ 4 slightly bent to one side, apex rounded; paramere Psc, widened before apex ( Fig. 639, 640 ); sipho slender, strongly curved, without obvious lateral alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, apex obliquely truncate, outer arm longer, wider than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border deeply emarginate ( Fig. 641, 642 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Venezuela.

Type depository. NHMV.

Geographical distribution. Known only from the type locality ( Venezuela).

Specimens examined. 1. Venezuela. The holotype.

Remarks. This species has a dorsal color pattern unique among presently known species of Cyrea ; definitive male genitalia; and Venezuelan type locality. However, it should be noted that C. moritzi might be better placed in the genus Dilatitibialis Duverger because there seems to be a trace of primary pores between abdominal ventrites 4 and 5. For now it is placed in Cyrea , but may have to be moved to Dilatitibialis once more specimens become available for study.

Figures

Figures 625-642. Cyrea spp. 625-629) Cyrea nigripennis. 625) Habitus. 626) Phallobase ventral. 627) Phallobase lateral. 628) Sipho. 629) Enlarged sipho apex. 630-636) Cyrea ustulata. 630) Habitus. 631) Protibia. 632) Phallobase ventral. 633) Phallobase lateral. 634) Sipho. 635) Enlarged siphonal apex. 636) Female genitalia. 637-642) Cyrea moritzi. 637) Habitus. 638) Protibia. 639) Phallobase ventral. 640) Phallobase lateral. 641) Sipho. 642) Enlarged siphonal apex.