Cyrea serval Mulsant, 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 : 51-52

37. Cyrea serval Mulsant , new combination

Cleothera serval Mulsant, 1850:633 .

Hyperaspis serval: Crotch 1874:222 ; Korschefsky 1931:195; Blackwelder 1945:448; Gordon 1987:28.

Description. Male lectotype. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.7 mm; body oval, convex. Dorsal surface feebly alutaceous, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum dark brown with lateral 1/6 yellow; elytron with 5 yellow spots arranged in rows of 2 each and 1 at apex, spots large, apical spot occupying 1/2 of apical declivity ( Fig. 204 ); ventral surface with lateral 1/3 of metaventrite pale yellowish brown. 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 to a diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter medially, becoming very large and separated by less than a diameter toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus as long as about 6 eye facets, strongly angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin without trace of bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia narrowly oblique, outer margin smooth; sponda shallow. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined at basal 1/4, with single stem extended to prosternal margin. Metaventrite with prominent setal tuft on each side of middle. Basal abdominal ventrite with setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite angled to ventrite apex, rounded along base, then rounded forward to lateral 1/4 of ventrite; ventrites 1-4 with sparse, short pubescence, punctures dense throughout, somewhat denser laterally; 5th ventrite with apical margin weakly emarginate medially, surface densely punctate; 6th ventrite with apical emargination shallow, lateral angle pronounced, rounded; apical tergite short, narrow, finely, densely pubescent. Genitalia with basal lobe 3/4 as long as paramere, narrow, parallel sided; paramere long, Pem, basal 2/3 almost parallel sided, abruptly widened into paddle shape in apical 1/3, apex nearly truncate ( Fig. 205, 206 ); sipho long, slender, curved in basal 1/2, without apparent lateral alae, basal capsule with inner arm narrow, apically truncate, outer arm short, wide, without accessory piece, basal border deeply emarginate ( Fig. 207, 208 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Cayenne ( French Guiana).

Type depository. UMZC (lectotype designated by Gordon, 1987).

Geographical distribution. French Guiana.

Specimen examined. 1. The lectotype.

Remarks. Cyrea serval has male genitalia with the paramere not exactly typical of the hexastigma group, but similar enough to be placed there. Dorsal color is a commonly found pattern, but the male pronotum with a large, median brown macula extended to anterior pronotal border is not often seen. Males of Cyrea usually have the pronotal macula not extended to the anterior border. The setal tufts on the metaventrite and basal abdominal ventrite are useful recognition characters within the group.

The lectotype is a very teneral specimen, misshapen, elytron “wrinkled,” right elytron damaged, and genitalia nearly transparent. Therefore length and width as recorded from this specimen are probably inaccurate, a fully hardened specimen would be significantly larger.

Figures

Figures 204-220. Cyrea spp. 204-208) Cyrea seval. 204) Habitus. 205) Phallobase ventral. 206) Phallobase lateral. 207) Sipho. 208) Enlarged siphonal apex. 209-214) Cyrea lydia. 209) Habitus. 210) Phallobase ventral. 211) Phallobase lateral. 212) Sipho. 213) Enlarged siphonal apex. 214) Female genitalia. 215-220) Cyrea yvonne. 215) Habitus. 216) Phallobase ventral. 217) Phallobase lateral. 218) Sipho. 219) Enlarged siphonal apex. 220) Female genital plate and spermathecal capsule.