Ponaria paprzyckii 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 : 109-110

2. Ponaria paprzyckii Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.9 mm, width 1.5 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black (Fig. 707); head black (Fig. 709); antenna yellow, mouthparts yellowish brown, legs with femur brownish yellow, tibia yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal punctures small separated by about a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures larger than on mesosternum basally and laterally, separated by a diameter or less, becoming smaller, more widely spaced medially; abdomen with punctures small, sparse. Head with frons densely pubescent, narrow, narrowed medially, about 3/4 width of eye measured at vertex (Fig. 709); apical maxillary palpomere short, feebly widened from base to apex. 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, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base broadly emarginate, lateral carina slender, angled toward middle at apex, extended beyond procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, angulate, extended 2/3 distance to apex of ventrite (Fig. 708). Apex of ventrite weakly truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, slender, laterally narrowed anterior to middle, then slightly widened, apex bluntly rounded; paramere slender, gradually widened from base to rounded apex (Fig. 710, 711); sipho long, robust, mostly straight except bent downward at apical 1/8, apical 1/8 slightly widened (Fig. 712).

Female. Similar to male except head not densely pubescent. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule spherical basally, abruptly narrowed to almost acute apex; bursal cap, long, basally and apically forked.

Variation. Length 1.9 to 2.0 mm.

Type material. Holotype male; PERU: Satipo, IX –X,1942, Paprzycki ( USNM) . Paratypes; 13, 1, same data as holotype, 12, same data as holotype except dates V–VI,1942, X, 1942, XI, 1942. ( USNM) .

Remarks. Ponaria paprzyckii is recognized by the relatively small dorsal punctation, completely black color, and Peruvian type locality. Genitalia, particularly of the female, are probably also distinctive among members of Ponaria .

Etymology. The species is named for the collector of the type series, an excellent Peruvian collector of Coccinellidae and other insects whose specimens have resulted in the naming of many new taxa.