Neaporia patsy Gordon and Hanley, 2017

Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2017, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: systematic revision of Western Hemisphere Cephaloscymnini (Coccinellinae) with description of a cryptic new genus and species of Coccidulini (Coccinellinae), Insecta Mundi 2017 (601), pp. 1-158 : 22-23

12. Neaporia patsy Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.6 mm; body oval, elytra with sides rounded, slightly wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color dark brown; head greenish black with clypeus and anterior ½ of frons yellow; pronotum black with yellow tint, reflexed lateral margin reddish yellow; elytron with large, slightly oblique, reddish yellow macula on anterior ½ (Fig. 111); mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3, basal 1/4 of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; antenna, legs yellow; ventral surface black except prothoracic hypomeron and apical two abdominal ventrites yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures slightly smaller than on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by about a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 large, separated by less than 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons twice width of eye measured at vertex (Fig. 113); eye canthus short, barely perceptible; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/4. Pronotum widest posterior to apical angle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron slightly descending externally, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum slightly wider than long, nearly twice as long as mesosternum, with apical margin arcuate, slightly produced, without anterolateral projection (Fig. 114). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, evenly rounded, extended 3/4 distance to apical margin of ventrite (Fig. 112). Apex of ventrite 5 slightly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, slender, oval, widest at middle, weakly narrowed to slightly emarginate apex in apical 1/3; paramere long, slender, basal ½ evenly widened, apical ½ feebly narrowed to rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations medially (Fig. 115, 116); sipho lost.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; PANAMA: Old Panama, Pan , 31–I–1911, EA Schwarz Collector. ( USNM).

Remarks. This is one of the maculate Neaporia taxa distinguished by position and shape of elytral macula, prosternal process much longer than mesosternal process, with externally descending epipleuron, and the form of male genitalia. The holotype is one collected by the distinguished E. A. Schwarz of what became the United States National Museum.