Cyrea bernice 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 : 55-56

41. Cyrea bernice Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.3 mm; body elongate oval, convex. Dorsal surface with head weakly alutaceous, shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with large, black basomedian macula extended 2/3 distance to anterior pronotal margin, macula with anterior margin narrowly, deeply emarginate with yellow; elytron with sutural and apical margins narrowly bordered with black and 3 black spots, anterolateral spot irregularly oval, extended posteriorly from humeral callus, discal spot narrow, elongate, posterior spot on apical declivity large, irregularly rounded ( Fig. 227 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, and metaventrite black, mesoventrite reddish brown; abdomen yellow except median 1/3 of ventrites 1-4 brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than to about a diameter, each puncture slightly larger than an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by about a diameter, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to slightly more than a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter medially, larger and separated by less than a diameter in lateral 2/3. 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 curved, 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 slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/3, connected to prosternal base by single carina. 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, long pubescence and small 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 emarginate with lateral angle abrupt. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides parallel in basal 7/ 8, apical 1/8 curved to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, lower margin widely produced, apex acute ( Fig. 228, 229 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 1/2, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, wide, apex weakly rounded, outer arm slightly wider and slightly longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 230, 231 ).

Female. Similar to male except head entirely reddish black, pronotum with mediobasal macula extended nearly to anterior pronotal margin. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, slender, basal 1/4 slightly wider than apical 3/4; bursal cap oval with 2 slender, sclerotized arms, apical strut short, slender, widened in apical 1/2 ( Fig. 232 ).

Variation. Length 2.6 to 3.2 mm, width 2.0 to 2.3 mm. Elytron with anterior spot near suture often connected to black sutural border.

Type material. Holotype male; ( Brazil) Brasilien, Nova Teutonia , 27 o ll’ B. 52 o 23' L, 10.4.1935, Fritz Plaumann, Korschefsky Collection 1952. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 17, 1, same data as holotype except date 9.10.1937 ( DZUP) ; 1, ( Brazil) P. Grossa, Faz. Andre, illegible line, Justus, 10-45, Colecao Justus Jor ( DZUP) ; 2, ( Argentina) Dique Lujan , XI.1955, Daguerre ( USNM) ; 1, ( Argentina) BsAs (Buenos Aires), Escobar, I.1964, Daguerre ( USNM) ; 8, ( Argentina) BsAs (Buenos Aires),, San Fernando, X-1954, XII- 1954, 20.XI.1962, Daguerre ( USNM) ; 2, Bs. Aires, Argentina, S. Fernando, 2.XII.53, J. B. Daguerre ( USNM) ; 3, ( Argentina) BsAs (Buenos Aires),, Tigre, XII. 1955, XI.1958, Daguerre ( USNM) .

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern and somewhat elongate body form are diagnostic for this species, but extremely similar to those of C. audrey . See remarks under that species for comparisons.

Figures

Figures 221-237. Cyrea spp. 221-226) Cyrea renee. 221) Habitus. 222) Proleg. 223) Phallobase ventral. 224) Phallobase lateral. 225) Sipho. 226) Female genitalia. 227-232) Cyrea bernice. 227) Habitus. 228) Phallobase ventral. 229) Phallobase lateral. 230) Sipho. 231) Enlarged siphonal apex. 232) Female genital plate, bursal cap, apical strut, and spermathecal capsule.233-237) Cyrea audrey. 233) Habitus.234) Phallobase ventral. 235) Phallobase lateral. 236) Sipho. 237) Enlarged siphonal apex.