Hyperaspis picta Szawaryn & Nestor-Arriola, 2025, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Szawaryn, Karol
name: Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Hyperaspis
Hyperaspis picta

description: Hyperaspis picta comb. nov.
Figs 1–3
Cinachyra picta Gorham, 1899: 263.– Korschefsky 1931: 109; Blackwelder 1945: 443; Fürsch 1996: 29.
Semra picta (Gorham, 1899): Özdikmen 2007: 25; Nedvěd & Kovář 2012: 530.
Diagnosis. Hyperaspis picta comb. nov. is a very distinctive and unique among all other Hyperaspis species. It can be easily distinguished from congeners by its color pattern (black body surface with large, orange, central irregular macula on elytra) and a very distinctive wrinkled surface of elytra.
Material examined. Holotype. MEXICO: Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 4600 ft. June. H.H. Smith / Cinachyra picta, Gorh. [hand writing]/ B.C.A., Col., VII./Type [red circle]/ HOLOTYPE Cinachyra picta Gorham 1899: 263 det. R.G. Booth 2005/ NMHUK010369515 / ♂ [NHM] (Fig. 1A–C, F). Other material. MEXICO: Tres Marias, Huitzilac, Morelos, 19.067093°N, 99.261239°W, alt. 2302 m / pine forest, on compound flowers, XI-3-2021, Col. K. Y. Acosta, J. G. Martinez & V. H. Toledo / CIUM-cocc-2662 / ♀ [CIUM] (Fig. 1D, E).
Distribution. Mexico: Guerrero, Morelos.
Redescription. Length = 2.45 mm, width = 1.93 mm; TL/EW = 1.27; PL/PW = 0.40; EL/EW = 0.94. Body oval (Figs 1A, D, 2A), strongly convex (Fig. 1C, E), winged.
Head black with two orange maculae located at base of the antennae, close to anterior margin of clypeus (Fig. 1B) (in female specimen the head is entirely black, Fig. 1E); pronotum black with orange-yellow margin of anterior corners and two barely visible small orange maculae on either side of pronotum (Fig. 1B, C) (in female specimen anterior maculae are connected and form irregular ring-like macule in anterior pronotal projections, Fig. 1E), two elliptical orange spots in pronotal discal area; elytra black with three pairs of small orange maculae (anterior, mediolateral, and posterior) and a large orange irregular maculae in the central part of elytra (Fig. 1A, D); ventral side black to dark brown with abdomen brown-orange; legs orange. Head and pronotum with surface rugged, appearing dull, with distinct sculpture (Fig 2A–D); elytra distinctly and densely wrinkled, wrinkles more deeply marked in posterior part of elytra (Fig. 2A, E). Head sparsely covered with small single punctae (Fig. 2B), pronotum and elytra covered with small, shallow double punctae (one bearing minute seta, second without seta) (Fig. 2C).
Head partially concealed by pronotum; ventral antennal grooves distinct, short and straight (Fig. 2G). Eyes (Fig. 2D, G) large, finely faceted, moderately convex, dorsally with inner orbits arcuate; ocular canthus absent; interocular distance about 0.50 times as wide as head width across eyes; interfacetal setae minute, sparsely distributed. Antennal insertions invisible from above (Fig. 2D), covered with lateral extensions of clypeus. Anterior clypeal margin slightly produced, with rounded lateral lobes extending anteriorly, emarginate medially. Antenna short, about 0.44 times as long as width of head capsule, composed of 11 antennomeres (Fig. 2G); scape enlarged, distinctly roundly projected anteriorly; pedicel narrower than scape, subquadrate, barrel-shaped; antennomere 3 shorter than pedicel, antennomeres 3–5 elongate, antennomeres 6–8 trapezoidal, broadening anteriorly, antennomeres 9–11 forming elongated, fusiform antennal club; antennomere 9 distinctly elongate, much longer than two apical antennomeres combined; antennomere 10 obliquely truncate apically, terminal antennomere short, sub-triangular. Labrum truncate at apex. Mandible apically bidentate. Maxillary cardo transverse with outer margin projecting laterally, reaching slightly outside of mouth cavity (Fig. 2F); maxillary palp short with terminal palpomere slightly widened apically, obliquely truncate at apex. Gula with distinct, central large pore (Fig. 2F). Submentum transverse with anterior margin straight; mentum cordate in shape, anterior margin with distinctly projected lobes, ventral surface with lateral longitudinal carinae; prementum transverse; labial palps separated by distance about equal to width of palpiger; penultimate palpomere large, elongate; ultimate palpomere conical, distinctly narrower and shorter than penultimate one (Fig. 2F).
Pronotum with anterior corners rounded, slightly projected, not swollen with regular border; anterior margin without bordering line in median part; posterior angle with short, oblique line, posterior margin bordered medially (Figs 1B, 2D). Prothoracic hypomeron smooth; notosternal suture distinct; prosternal process parallel sided, truncate apically; its surface with short, parallel, lateral carinae (Fig. 2F). Prosternum in front of coxa shorter than procoxal longitudinal diameter at the same position; anterior pronotal margin with complete bordering line; procoxal cavity transverse without anterior bordering line, with apically rounded lateral slit (Fig. 2F).
Mesoventrite short, transverse, anteriorly emargined with complete raised border; mesoventral process at median width of coxa about as wide as corresponding mesocoxal diameter; meso-metaventral articulation with suture visible; junction straight (Fig. 2F, H). Scutellar shield sub-triangular (Fig. 2A). Elytra with sides rounded; lateral margins narrow, not or barely visible from above; humeral calli present (Fig. 2A); elytral epipleuron relatively wide, incomplete apically, inner margin with incomplete bordering line; with foveae for reception of mid and hind femora in repose (Fig. 2H). Metaventrite with discrimen long but incomplete anteriorly; metaventral postcoxal lines joined at middle forming straight line, roundly recurved and complete laterally (Fig. 2H); metaventral surface coarsely punctate, with microreticulation on lateral sides; metepimeron distinct.
Legs with trochanters angulate (Fig. 2H, I); pro- and mid femora broad, hind femora slightly swollen; tibiae slender, with distinct apical carina present, tibial apices without spurs (Fig. 2I); tarsi with four tarsomeres, pseudotrimerous; tarsal claws in female and male with large quadrate basal tooth (Fig. 2J); empodium absent.
Abdomen with six ventrites in both sexes (Fig. 3A); ventrite 1 long, about as long as ventrites 2 and 3 combined, ventrite 2–5 sub-equal in length; abdominal postcoxal lines separate medially, incomplete, posteriorly almost reaching hind margin of ventrite 1 and slightly recurved; hind margin of ventrite 5 in male truncate (Fig. 3A), in female straight to slightly emarginate; ventrite 6 in male apically truncate (Fig. 3A); ventrite 6 in female apically rounded, in both sexes tergite VIII apically rounded (Fig. 3B). In both sexes ventrite 6 with lateral pockets for accommodation of laterally bent tergite VIII, lateral margins of tergite VIII partially covers ventrite 6 and is visible ventrally. Small glandular pores between ventrites 2–3 and 3–4 present, almost inconspicuous in females.
Male terminalia and genitalia. Sternite IX (Fig. 3J) with additional sclerite at base of apodeme in form of inverted V; apodeme narrow, simple, rod-like; tergite X short, transverse. Tegmen in inner view (Fig. 3G) with penis guide asymmetrical, petal shaped; parameres (Fig. 3G, H) articulated with phallobase, well developed, distinctly longer than penis guide, asymmetric, with fringe of dense, long setae on apices and outer margins; tegminal strut rod-like. Penis basal capsule with inner arm well developed, outer arm slightly reduced; penis of equal diameter along the entire length; penis tip lightly sclerotized, partially membranous (Fig. 3I).
Female genitalia. Sperm duct longer than spermatheca; infundibulum absent; spermatheca compound, basal unit elongate (Fig. 3F) and apical portion spherical (Fig. 3E) connected by narrow duct, spermathecal accessory gland present (Fig. 3C). Coxites sub-quadrate, deeply excavated at base, truncate on apices; apical margins covered with long setae (Fig. 3C); styli present. Proctiger large, transverse, with anterior margin emarginated, and posterior margin almost straight, slightly emarginated, covered with long setae (Fig. 3D).
description: Published as part of Szawaryn, Karol & Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael, 2025, Contribution to the Mexican Hyperaspidini: Hyperaspis picta (Gorham, 1899) comb. nov. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 421-428 in Zootaxa 5584 (3) on pages 422-426, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/14853473