Neaporia mabel 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 : 16

3. Neaporia mabel Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.7 mm; body short, wide, elytra wider than pronotal base but less so than in N. irma , widest at anterior 1/3 of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color red except head black, with 3 unequal yellow vittae on apical ½ of frons, vitta near eye long, median vitta short ( Fig. 60 ); pronotum black except narrowly reddish brown on reflexed lateral margin; elytron with small, dark brown macula occupying apical 1/8 of apical declivity ( Fig. 58 ); mouthparts yellow except maxilla dark brown; antenna, legs, abdomen yellow; remainder of venter light brown. Head punctures coarse, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures smaller than head punctures, separated by about a diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than pronotal punctures, separated by slightly less than a diameter; prosternal, metasternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter, nearly contiguous; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1, 2 large, separated by less than 3 times a diameter, inside of postcoxal lines lacking punctures, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons slightly less than width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short, barely visible; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at apical angle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum short, wider than long, as long as mesosternum, with apical margin weakly medially emarginate, densely rugose, anterolateral projection pronounced, setose ( Fig. 61 ). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, narrow, angulate, extended about ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 narrowly, deeply emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, wide in basal ½ then narrowed in apical ½, extreme apex narrowly emarginate medially, abruptly curved upward on each side of emargination; paramere widest medially, weakly narrowed to nearly acute apex, dorsal margin with strong, acute projection on upper margin in apical 1/4 ( Fig. 62, 63 ); sipho robust throughout, apex bluntly rounded ( Fig. 64 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; ECUADOR: Napo, 400m, Jatun Sacha Biol. Station (21 km E. Puerto Napo), 15.VII.1994, Levy & Génier, virgin rain forest, F.I.T. ( CMNC).

Remarks. Neaporia mabel is nearly an external copy of N. irma , but with a less obviously widened body form and smaller dark, apical elytral macula. The structures of the male genitalia differ significantly along with widely separated geographical distributions.

Figures

Figures 45–64. Neaporia spp. 45–53) Neaporia irma. 45) Habitus. 46) Abdomen. 47) Frons. 48) Maxillary palpus. 49) Pro and mesosternum. 50) Phallobase ventral. 51) Phallobase lateral. 52) Sipho. 53) Female spermathecal capsule. 54–57) Neaporia kristine. 54) Habitus. 55) Frons. 56) Phallobase ventral. 57) Phallobase lateral. 58–64) Neaporia mabel. 58) Habitus. 59) Basal abdominal ventrite. 60) Frons. 61) Pro and mesosternum. 62) Phallobase ventral. 63) Phallobase lateral. 64) Sipho.