Neaporia penny 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 : 30

22. Neaporia penny Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.2 mm; body oval, short, wide, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black with blue head and elytra, pronotum with green metallic tint; pronotum and elytra with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; elytron with large, regularly oval, median reddish yellow macula (Fig. 162); antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow except apical 1/3 of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; ventral surface dark brown except abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures slightly larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface absent or small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 large, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex (Fig. 163); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, much longer than mesosternum, apical margin strongly produced, rounded, nearly concealing mouthparts, anterolateral projection small, setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, somewhat angulate, extended 3/4 distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 broadly, weakly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to apex, apex broadly emarginate; paramere slender, curved, of equal width from base nearly to apex, narrowed apically to rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt, median serrations (Fig. 164, 165); sipho slender, slightly sinuate before apex (Fig. 166).

Female. Similar to male except head not densely pubescent, spermathecal capsule long, slender, bent just anterior to midpoint, cornu rounded, not modified.

Variation. Length 1.4 to 1.7 mm, width 1.0 to 1.3 mm. Size of elytral macula varies from small, located behind and inside of humeral callus to large, occupying ½ of elytron.

Type material. Holotype male; PANAMA: CANAL ZONE, 100 m, 5.0 mi. NW Gamboa, 09 o 10' 00" N, 079 o 45' 00" W, Sample 3–5, 22 July 1976, Montgomery & Lubin Coll., Canopy fogging experiment in Leuhea seemanni, Pyrethrin fog. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 5, Paraiso, CZ Pan (Canal Zone), Jan 22,11, 31–I– 11, Apr 6, 14, 21. ( USNM) .

Other specimens. 2, Xylopia sericea Fogging ; 26.vii.97, Tree 2A – Tray 5, Oquiriquia forest, Tierr Prometida, N.E. BOLIVIA, J.G. Davies, BMNH (E) 1998–69. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Neaporia penny is recognized by oval, reddish yellow median macula on each elytron and male head without macula. Two Bolivian specimens that match the Panama types vary in both overall appearance and male genitalia are placed here in spite of the disparate locality. It is unusual that a species of Neaporia has such a wide distribution, but the specimens cannot be separated.