Hinda designata Mulsant, 1874

Gordon, Robert D., Canepari, Claudio & Hanley, Guy A., 2013, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XII: New name for Cyra Mulsant, review of Brachiacanthini genera, and systematic revision of Cleothera Mulsant, Hinda Mulsant and Serratitibia Gordon and Canepari, new genus, Insecta Mundi 2013 (278), pp. 1-150 : 13-15

3. Hinda designata Mulsant

Hinda designata Mulsant, 1850: 518 ; Korchefsky 1931: 177; Blackwelder 1945: 446; Gordon 1987: 26; Almeida and Milléo 2000: 75; Almeida et al. 2007: 66.

Hyperaspis designata: Crotch 1874: 213 .

Hynda 15-maculata Weise, 1895: 127. Hinda quinquedecimmaculata: Korschefsky 1931: 177 ; Blackwelder1945: 446; Almeida and Milléo 2000: 75 (synonym).

Helesius caseyi Sicard, 1912: 135 . NEW SYNONYM.

Description. Male lectotype. Length 3.5 mm, width 2.7 mm; body elongate, convex. Dorsal surface with head feebly alutaceous, weakly shiny; pronotum and elytron not alutaceous, shiny. Color yellow except head with clypeus light brown, vertex black; pronotum with basal border black, black area extended medially in 2 narrow bands not reaching anterior pronotal margin, black area broadly, continuously extended onto posterolateral angle, curved forward apically; elytron black with 6 large yellow spots, basosutural spot irregularly triangular, widest at base, mediolateral spot projecting inward nearly onto disc, sutural spot on apical declivity rectangularly oblique, small, rectangular spot present between mediolateral and sutural spot, apical spot transversely oval ( Fig. 49 ); prosternum, meso–, metaventrites brown, mouthparts, legs yellowish brown; abdomen with basal 2 ventrites brown, remainder yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than diameter, each puncture as large as 3 eye facets; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by less than 2 times diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 times diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 times diameter medially, slightly larger and separated by diameter laterally. Clypeus apically truncate, lateral angle abruptly rounded. Eye canthus about 8 eye facets long, dorsally ridged, angled forward, apically rounded, brown. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides straight, basal and anterior angles rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia widely flanged, flange rounded, outer margin serrate, wider than remainder of protibia ( Fig. 50 ); sponda pronounced, extended beyond protibial flange. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without median setal tuft. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated apically, parallel, extended to middle of prosternum, carinae not joined basally. Abdomen with primary pores laterally between ventrites 4–5 small, slightly emarginating apex of ventrite 4, not forming depression on ventrite 5; postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded throughout, extended to apical margin of ventrite medially, then broadly forward; ventrites 1–4 with sparse, long pubescence, punctures dense throughout; 5th abdominal ventrite slightly depressed medially, without tubercle on each side of middle, without dense, long pubescence on apical margin, apical margin weakly emarginate, surface densely, finely punctate; 6th ventrite narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, with distinct, apically acute, median tubercle not set back from truncate apex ( Fig. 55 ). Apical tergite finely, densely punctate, with median groove. Genitalia with basal lobe short, wide, apically rounded, about as long as paramere, symmetrical, sides weakly, evenly widened from base to apex; paramere with apex emarginate medially ( Fig. 51 ); sipho robust, strongly curved in basal 1/2, with small, visible lateral alae before apex, basal capsule small, inner arm short, angled, with narrow spur on inner margin, outer arm longer than inner arm, rectangular, with small accessory piece ( Fig. 52, 53 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black with triangular yellow spot medially. Pronotum with black median area extended to apical margin, isolating an elongate, triangular, yellow spot in middle. Genitalia with short, slightly curved spermathecal capsule; bursal cap with 3 arms, outer 2 arms externally ragged, apical strut large, flat, triangular ( Fig. 54 )

Variation. Length 3.0– 3.8 mm, width 2.4–3.2 mm. Size and shape of pronotal maculation is variable; elytral spots are often at least partially joined.

Type locality. Of H. designata , “Santa-Fé de Bogota ” (Bogota, Colombia) ; of H. quinquedecimmaculata , Colombia; of H. caseyi , Colombia, Cauca .

Type depository. Of H. designata, UMZC (lectotype designated by Gordon 1987); of H. quinquedecimmaculata, ZMHB (lectotype designated by Almeida et al. 2007); of H. caseyi, DEI (holotype).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Specimens examined. 18. Colombia. Antioquia ; El Picacho, Medellin, Valle de Medellin. Caldas ; Manizales, Pereira. Cauca ; Silvia. Cundinamarca ; Ubate. Santander ; Landazuri. Valle; Saladito. Valle del Cauca ; Tenerife. ( DEI) ( UMZC) ( USNM) .

Remarks. This species differs from others in the genus by having 6 yellow elytral spots. Some of these spots are often partially joined, but those specimens remain recognizable as H. designata .

Helesius caseyi Sicard is a synonym of H. designata as indicated by examination of the holotype. Sicard described H. caseyi from a single DEI specimen labeled “ Cauca (handwritten)/Coll. Kraatz Sicard det./ Syntypus (pink label)/ Helesius caseyi mihi n. sp. Type (handwritten)/Coll. DEI Müncheberg.” It is apparent from Sicard’s description that he saw only one specimen, the holotype.

Figures

Figures 49–59. 49–55) Hinda designata. 49) Habitus. 50) Protibia. 51) Phallobase, ventral. 52) Enlarged siphonal apex. 53) Sipho. 54) Female genitalia. 55) Abdomen. 56–59) Hinda ecuadorica. 56) Habitus. 57) Phallobase ventral. 58) Enlarged siphonal apex. 59) Sipho.