Neaporia miriam 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 : 40-41

37. Neaporia miriam Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.3 mm, width 0.9 mm; body oval, slightly elongate, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black (Fig. 233); head black; pronotum with reflexed lateral margin black; antenna, tibia yellow; mouthparts yellow except terminal maxillary palpomere reddish brown; epipleuron, femur, abdomen brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by 2 to 4 times a diameter; prosternal, metasternal punctures large, separated by about a diameter; metasternum with large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface absent or small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1, 2 large, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than width of eye measured at vertex (Fig. 235); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, apical margin truncate, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, extended about ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite (Fig. 234). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to broadly emarginate apex; paramere slender, basal 2/3 evenly wide, apical 1/3 more slender, curved downward to rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations (Fig. 236, 237); sipho slender, apical 1/6 slightly sinuate (Fig. 238).

Female. Unknown

Variation. Length 1.3–1.4 mm, width 0.9–1.0 mm.

Type material. Holotype male; N. VENEZUELA: Tray 4, FOG 3.26. ii.1990, Deciduous forest. Talisia sp. , J. G. Davies, Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier. Maracay/Occumare km36, La Trilla, 300m. alt., Bristol Univ. Exped., Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1992–6. ( BMNH). Paratypes; 6, 3, same data as holotype; 3, same data as holotype except host Chrysophyllum lucentisolium, Tray 16, Mangifera indica , tray 20. ( BMNH).

Remarks. This small black species may be separated from similar appearing species by examination of the male genitalia in combination with the Venezuelan type locality.