Neaporia jennie 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 : 17-18

5. Neaporia jennie Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.0 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color yellow; head, pronotum bluish black, head with anterior 2/3 maculate, macula yellow, divided into 3 parts by narrow brown vittae ( Fig. 71 ), pronotum entirely bluish black including reflexed lateral margin; elytron reddish yellow except apical declivity bluish black ( Fig. 70 ); antenna, legs, entire ventral surface yellow; mouthparts yellow except maxilla dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than twice a diameter; pronotal punctures slightly smaller than on head, separated by less than three times a diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times 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 absent or small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1, 2 small, separated by 2–4 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, 1 ½ times wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, slender, parallel sided. 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 wider than long, shorter than mesosternum, apical margin truncate, anterolateral angle strongly projected, apically acute. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended nearly to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 broadly, shallowly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, nearly parallel sided, abruptly narrowed before apex, apex deeply, narrowly emarginate; paramere slightly narrowed from base to bluntly rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations ( Fig. 72, 73 ); sipho slender, apical 1/5 abruptly narrowed ( Fig. 74 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 1.7 to 2.9 mm, width 2.0 to 2.1 mm. Base color of head, pronotum varies from bluish black to black, elytron sometimes with lateral margin narrowly brown or black from humeral angle to macula on apical declivity.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Am.(Amazonas), Reserva Ducke , 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G., Licania micrantha , 18.x.1995, Tree No 166, Tray No. 9. ( BMNH) . Paratypes; 2, 1, same data as holotype except Tray no. 7 ; 1, same data as holotype except Corythophora alta , 01.v.1996, Tree No 104, Tray No. 7. ( BMNH) .

Remarks. This species is similar to N. irma and N. billie in size and external appearance, but is distinguished from them by a highly distinctive male prosternal process and differing structure of male genitalia. The prosternal process with strongly projected, anteriorly acute apical angles is unique within the genus.

Figures

Figures 65–81. Neaporia spp. 65–69) Neaporia argentifrons 65) Habitus. 66) Frons. 67) Phallobase ventral. 68) Phallobase lateral. 69) Sipho. 70–74) Neaporia jennie. 70) Habitus. 71) Frons). 72) Phallobase ventral. 73) Phallobase lateral. 74) Sipho. 75–81) Neaporia deanna. 75) Habitus. 76) Abdomen. 77) Frons. 78) Pro and mesosternum. 79) Phallobase ventral. 80) Phallobase lateral. 81) Sipho.