Hinda joeli, Almeida & Milleo, 2000

Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Milléo, Julianne, 2000, Review Of The Genus Hinda Mulsant (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Hyperaspinae, Brachiacanthadini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (1), pp. 68-87 : 84-85

Hinda joeli , new species

Figs. 23 , 41–43

Diagnosis. Body oval­convex. Integument black with yellow spots on pronotum and elytra ( Fig. 23 ). Pronotum with two small lateral, elongate, black spots that reaches lateral border. Scutellum black. Each elytron with three large spots: the first round, in center of elytral disc and with two small anterior projections; second next to scutellum, triangular; third, transverse, apical, reaching lateral external border of elytron. Length 2.67–2.83 mm. Width 2.00– 2.25 mm.

Male. Median lobe asymmetrical, median lobe slightly smaller than parameres, wide base with apex obliquely truncated; parameres wide with long bristles ( Fig. 41 ). Sipho long, curved with modified membranous apex ( Fig. 42 ).

Female. Genital plate wide, with small style; spermatheca cylindrical, forming arc, with round cornus and small ramus; infundibulum elongate. Last sternite with dense array of elongate bristles on the apical border ( Fig. 43 ).

Variation. The spots of the pronotum may be united toward the apex. Each elytron may only have the two larger spots, losing the spot next to the scutellum. This variation has been seen only in females.

Remarks. Hinda joeli is similar to H. humerata , H. regularis and H. modesta , but differs in being black with only two yellow spots on each elytron, one of which is on the central disc. Both male and female genitalia, present a pattern different from the other species. Restricted to the Amazon Basin, the range of this species is similar to those of the others mentioned above.

Type Material. Holotype, male, from Rio Cauaburi , Amazonas, Brazil, J.Bechyne´, 7­8­XII­1962, deposited at the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo.

Material Examined. Brazil. Amazonas: Rio Cauaburi , 7­8­XII­1962, J.Bechyné col., two specimens (holotype and paratype), Convênio DZSP­Goeldi ( MZSP) ; Tapuruquara, Rio Negro , 25­27­XI­1962, J.Bechyné col., one specimen ( MZSP) ; 4­5­II­1963, J.Bechyné col., two specimens ( DZUP) .

Figures

Figs. 19–24. 19) Hinda regularis; 20) Hinda uncinata; 21) Hinda terminata; 22) Hinda humerata; 23) Hinda joeli; 24) Hinda decemverrucata.

Figs. 41–43. Hinda joeli. 41) tegmen; 42) sipho; 43) female genitalia.