Neaporia jenny 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 : 25

15. Neaporia jenny Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.2 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 brown ( Fig. 129 ); head dark brown; pronotum with lateral 1/3 yellowish brown, not seen in image; mouthparts yellow except extreme apex of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; apical 2 abdominal ventrites yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures 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 densely pubescent with frons slightly narrower than an eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 130 ); 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 slightly wider than long, as long as mesosternum, with apical margin truncate, male anterolateral projection large, prominent, distinctly setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, evenly rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 widely emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to blunt, emarginate apex (not visible in image); paramere wide, narrowed from base to narrowly rounded apex in lateral view, dorsal margin with blunt serrations medially ( Fig. 131, 132 ); sipho slender, narrowed to acute apex in apical 1/6 ( Fig. 133 ).

Female. Similar to male except head not densely pubescent, body entirely dark brown, nearly black, spermathecal capsule short, basal and apical portions large, brown, short middle section slender, pale, apex of cornu broadly rounded.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Tray 6, FOG 16.11. v.1990, Gallery forest, Cassia grandis, J.G. Davis, N. Venezuela: Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier, Campo. Experimntl CENIAP, Pozo del Diablo , 400m. 459. ( BMNH) . Paratype; 1, same data as holotype except Tray 14, Bristol Univ. Exped. Brit. Mus. Nac. Hist. 1992–6 ( BMNH) .

Remarks. Neaporia jenny is difficult to distinguish from other brown to black species of Neaporia . Male genitalia are diagnostic and must be used for identification.

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.