Neaporia gwendolyn 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 : 24-25

14. Neaporia gwendolyn Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.5 mm; body slightly elongate, elytra with sides weakly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except head with trace of microsculpture. Color light brown; head dark brown, vertex black with blue tint, pronotum with reflexed lateral margin yellow; elytron with slender, oblique, yellow vitta extended from inside humeral callus posteriorly onto apical declivity near suture ( Fig. 124 ); mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3 of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; antenna yellow; legs yellow except femur mostly brown; prothoracic hypomeron, epipleuron, abdomen and median ventral surface yellow, lateral areas of ventral surface brownish yellow medially. Head punctures large, nearly contiguous; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; 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 small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–2 large, separated by 2 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent with frons wider than an eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 126 ); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, narrowed to apex in apical 1/4. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, evenly widened. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum wider than long, shorter than mesosternum, with apical margin slightly emarginate medially, male anterolateral projection large, prominent, distinctly setose ( Fig. 127 ). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, evenly rounded, extended nearly to apical margin of ventrite ( Fig. 125 ). Apex of abdominal ventrite 5 medially emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, slender, parallel sided, abruptly narrowed to apex in apical 1/8; paramere wide, widest medially, apical 1/5 abruptly curved, narrowed to abruptly rounded apex, dorsal margin slightly emarginate medially, without blunt serrations ( Fig. 128 ); sipho lost.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Monagas, Caripe, Cueva Guacharo , 20–31.VII. 1987, 750m., S&J. Peck, f.i.t. – forest over coffee. 87–78. ( CMNC).

Remarks. Neaporia gwendolyn is distinguished by the relatively pale dorsal color and vittate elytron. Because the holotype is somewhat teneral and soft, the genitalia are correspondingly soft and distorted out of shape. This explains the less than satisfactory genitalic image.

Figures

Figures 117–133. Neaporia spp. 117–123) Neaporia hilda 117) Habitus. 118) Basal abdominal ventrites and frons. 119) Pro and mesosternum. 120) Female spermathecal capsule. 121) Phallobase ventral. 122) Phallobase lateral. 123) Sipho. 124–128) Neaporia gwendolyn 124) Habitus. 125) Abdomen. 126) Frons. 127) Pro and mesosternum. 128) Phallobase ventral. 129–133) Neaporia jenny 129) Habitus. 130) Frons. 131) Phallobase ventral. 132) Phallobase lateral. 133) Sipho.