Neaporia nina 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 : 27

18. Neaporia nina Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.3 mm, width 0.9 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side weakly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black ( Fig. 145 ); head dark brown with narrow lateral, yellow vitta adjacent to eye extended from near base of eye anteriorly to clypeus, vitta widened in apical 1/3, short, oval vitta present at middle posterior to clypeus ( Fig. 146 ); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin yellowish brown, fore angles yellow; antenna, mouthparts yellow; legs dark yellow; apical 2 abdominal ventrites brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly 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 small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–2 large, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not densely pubescent, frons strongly widened from vertex to clypeus, as wide as eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 146 ); 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 as wide as long, as long as mesosternum, apical margin truncate, male without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, evenly rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 slightly emarginate medially, nearly truncate. Genitalia with phallobase strongly, evenly curved throughout, basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, parallel sided, narrowed just before apex to slightly emarginate apex; paramere slender, of equal width from base nearly to apex, narrowed apically to acutely round apex, dorsal margin without blunt serrations medially ( Fig. 147 ); sipho slender, slightly sinuate before apex ( Fig. 148 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Tray 1, FOG 5. 28.iii.1990, Deciduous forest , Polygonaceae ?, J. G. Davies, N. Venezuela: Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier, Maracay / Occumare km 36, La Trilla, 300m. alt., Bristol Univ. Exped., Brit. Mus. Nat. Mus. 1992–6. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Males of N. nina are recognized by the distinctive head pattern and by frons strongly widened from vertex to clypeus.

Figures

Figures 134–148. Neaporia spp. 134–138) Neaporia nora 134) Habitus. 135) Frons. 136) Phallobase ventral. 137) Phallobase lateral. 138) Sipho. 139–144) Neaporia margie 139) Habitus. 140) Abdominal ventrites. 141) Frons. 142) Phallobase ventral. 143) Phallobase lateral. 144) Apical portion of sipho. 145–148) Neaporia nina 145) Habitus. 146) Frons. 147) Phallobase lateral. 148) Basal portion of sipho.