Cyrea Gordon & Canepari, 2013 Cyrea Gordon & Canepari, 2013: 111; Canepari et al., 2016: 3; González, 2022: 347. Type species: Cleothera (Cyra) quinquenotata Mulsant, 1850; by subsequent designation of Gordon et al. (2013). Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Rio Grande do Norte; Pernambuco. Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Cyrea sue Canepari & Gordon, 2016; Cyrea maxine Canepari & Gordon, 2016 [new record] (Fig. 2). Material examined. Cyrea maxine: “ NATAL / R. G. Norte [Rio Grande do Norte] Brasil / XI.1949 / M.Alvarenga leg.” [partially handwritten white label] “ Cyrea / maxine / Canepari e Gordon, 2016/ J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex. [DZUP 190017]. Comments. Cyrea is represented by 58 species in Brazil, and C. maxine is the second record of Cyrea for NE Brazil (Canepari et al. 2016).

Published as part of Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5728 (3) on page 455, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17894971