Cyrea maculosa (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 : 34-35

19. Cyrea maculosa (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera maculosa Mulsant, 1850:576 .

Hyperaspis maculosa: Crotch 1874:220 ; Korschefsky 1931:192; Blackwelder 1945:447.

Description. Female lectotype. Length 2.5 mm, width 2.0 mm; body rounded, convex. Color yellow except head with clypeus and apex of frons faintly brown; pronotum with 7 spots, 5 mostly round spots on base, 2 subtriangular spots at middle; elytron with all margins narrowly brown, with 7 large brown spots arranged in 3 rows of 2 each plus 1 spot on suture in anterior 1/2 of elytron, 2 near humeral callus, 1 obliquely oval near outer margin of elytron, 1 discal spot round, 2 mostly round spots in apical 1/3 ( Fig. 102 ); venter of head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites black except mesosternal ala yellow, legs yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture about as large as an eye facet; pronotal and elytral punctures about same size as on head. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides straight, anterior angle abruptly rounded, posterior angle broadly rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply foveolate????for reception of femoral apices, descending externally. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin weakly curved. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft ( Fig. 103 ). Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, rounded along border, then rounded forward. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule long, slender, weakly curved, cornu enlarged, apically rounded; bursal cap oval with 2 sclerotized outer arms, apical strut long, apically widened ( Fig. 108 ).

Male. Similar to female except abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and coarse punctures sparse medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex slightly emarginate, nearly truncate. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, lateral angle abrupt, apex emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe 3/4 as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides parallel from base to obliquely widened apex; paramere Pav, wide, widened from base to rounded apex, widest in apical 1/2, anterolateral angle with long projection “ear” ( Fig. 104, 105 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, with visible alae at apical 1/12, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, apex truncate, with short basal projection, outer arm straight, slightly wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 106, 107 ).

Variation. Length 2.5 to 2.7 mm, width 2.0 to 2.3 mm.

Type locality. Colombia?

Type depository. MNHP (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Specimens examined. 5. Colombia. V. de Medellin (Valle de Medellin).

Remarks. Cyrea maculosa has a dorsal color pattern very similar to that of C. mariae , male genitalia place them in the same groups, and the dorsal color pattern is very similar. It is possible that these are the same species, but C. mariae has the prosternal carinae complete, and male genital paramere much wider than in C. maculosa , the siphonal capsules and spermatheca of the female genitalia also differ.

Mulsant (1850) listed the type locality as “ Colombia?”, but the lectotype does not bear a locality label. The lectotype in the MNHP is labeled “154/ Cleothera maculosa Muls., Auct. det.”

Figures

Figures 102-117. Cyrea spp. 102-108) Cyrea maculosa. 102) Habitus. 103) Proleg. 104) Phallobase ventral. 105) Phallobase lateral. 106) Sipho. 107) Enlarged siphonal apex. 108) Female spermathecal capsule. 109-112) Cyrea mariae. 109) Habitus. 110) Sipho. 111) Enlarged siphonal apex. 112) Female genitalia. 113-117) Cyrea gacognii. 113) Habitus. 114) Phallobase ventral. 115) Sipho. 116) Enlarged siphonal apex. 117) Female genitalia.