Neaporia kay 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 : 30-31

23. Neaporia kay Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.8 mm, width 1.3 mm; body oval, slightly elongate, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny, lacking microsculpture except elytron with slight trace of microsculpture. Color dark brown; pronotum yellowish brown; elytron with small, round, yellow macula just posterior to middle of elytron (Fig. 167); antenna, mouthparts yellow; legs yellow except femur yellowish brown; ventral surface dark brown except abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures slightly larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice 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 1–3 large, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; 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 shorter than mesosternum, apical margin slightly emarginate, anterolateral projection small, setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 broadly, distinctly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, slender, equal in width from base nearly to apex, narrowed apically to weakly emarginate apex; paramere slender, nearly straight, widest at middle, narrowed apically to acutely rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt serrations in apical ½ (Fig. 168, 169); sipho slender, narrowed from base to apex (Fig. 170).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; Caracas Venezuela, Mt Avila 22100 m, XI.1960 G. Frey. ( USNM).

Remarks. This species is distinguished by the small, round, yellow macula on each elytron.