Cryptognatha pudibunda Mulsant

F, Guillermo González, Hanley, Guy A. & Gordon, Robert D., 2019, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XIX: Overview of Cryptognathini and systematic revision of South American Cryptognatha Mulsant, Insecta Mundi 714 (714), pp. 1-32 : 17-18

17. Cryptognatha pudibunda Mulsant

Cryptognatha pudibunda Mulsant 1850: 499 ; Crotch 1874: 206; Korschefsky 1931: 219; Blackwelder 1945: 449. Cryptognatha fryii Crotch 1874: 207 ; Korschefsky 1931: 219; Blackwelder 1945: 449. New synonym. Cryptognatha bryanti Brèthes 1925b: 201 ; Korschefsky 1931: 219; Blackwelder 1945: 449. New synonym.

Description. Male. Length 2.3 mm, width 2.0 mm. Dorsal surface shiny with faint trace of microsculpture on pronotum. Color black; head yellow; pronotum with lateral 1/4 yellow ( Fig. 91 ); venter with mouthparts and legs yellow; median portion of basal abdominal ventrite, ventrites 2–4 brown, ventrites 2–5 brownish yellow. Head without punctures; pronotal punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than a diameter to twice a diameter, becoming gradually larger toward lateral margin; prosternal punctures small, indistinct; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter, metasternal punctures large, separated by two or three times a diameter medially, entirely absent in lateral 1/3; basal abdominal ventrite with coarse punctures separated by about a diameter medially, lateral 1/3 of ventrite lacking punctation, ventrites 2–4 finely punctured, punctures separated by about a diameter, ventrite 5 with dense, fine punctation. Head with frons parallel-sided, medially depressed, 2.5 times as wide as eye, apex feebly arcuate medially, lateral 1/8 slightly retracted, angle acute ( Fig. 92 ); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side extended from apex of intercoxal process more than 2/3 distance to apex of prosternum. Epipleuron moderately descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite evenly curved, extended slightly more than 1/2 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia short, penis guide nearly as long as paramere, slender, evenly narrowed from base to abruptly rounded apex; paramere long, slender, curved to rounded apex ( Fig. 95, 96 ); penis long, apex slightly attenuate; penis capsule slender, elongate, with inner arm long, sinuate, apex somewhat truncate, outer arm long, apex slightly convex ( Fig. 97 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black with dark brown clypeus, often with clypeus entirely black, pronotum entirely black, head feebly impressed medially; spermathecal capsule short, ramus widened, cornu widened from base to abruptly rounded apex, with long, sclerotized portion of sperm duct ( Fig. 98 ).

Variation. Length 2.2 to 2.5 mm, width 1.8 to 2.1 mm. Penis guide of male genitalia slightly variable, apex nearly smoothly rounded or with indication of “shoulders” before apex.

Type locality. Of C. pudibunda , “ Brésil ”; of C. fryii , Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil); of C. bryanti, Santo Amara, Santos ( Brazil) .

Type material. Of C. pudibunda, Dejean collection, Musée des confluences, Lyon, France; lectotype here designated; of C. fryii , BMNH, lectotype here designated; of C. bryanti , BMNH. The lectotype of C. pudibunda is labeled “Type/15139/TYPE/Fry RioJan/Type/Fry Coll. 1905-100.” The lectotype of C. fryii the is labeled “Type/Ilha Santo Amaro,nr. Santos, Brazil, G. E. Bryant iv.1912 /G. Bryant Coll. 1919-147/ Oeneis bryanti Brethes. ”

Geographical distribution. Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela.

Specimens examined. 42. Widely distributed in Brazil with specimens examined from other countries listed above .

Remarks. Of the dorsally black species C. pudibunda is most widely distributed, particularly in Brazil. Male genitalia must be examined to identify this and all other taxa with entirely black elytra. Mulsant (1850) stated his type material was in the Dejean collection, now housed in Musée des confluences, Lyon. Harold Labrique provided us with images of the type specimen and that specimen labeled “ Bresil ” is here designated as the lectotype, because Mulsant (1850) specified it as the type.

Specimens identified as C. pudibunda may actually represent more than one species, however, no convincing evidence of this was forthcoming. Both C. fryii (lectotype) and C. bryanti are considered synonyms of C. pudibunda .

Figures

Figures 86–102. Cryptognatha spp. 86–90) Cryptognatha yolandi. 86) Habitus. 87) Frons. 88) Phallobase ventral. 89) Phallobase lateral. 90) Penis. 91–98) Cryptognatha pudibunda. 91) Habitus. 92) Frons. 93) Maxillary palpus. 94) Antenna. 95) Phallobase ventral. 96) Phallobase lateral. 97) Penis. 98) Spermathecal capsule. 99–102) Cryptognatha batesi. 99) Habitus. 100) Frons. 101) Phallobase lateral. 102) Phallobase ventral.