Neaporia nora 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 : 25-26

16. Neaporia nora Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.3 mm; body elongate, elytron with lateral margin nearly straight, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black with slight greenish tint ( Fig. 134 ); head dark brown; pronotum with fore lateral margin and fore angles reddish brown; mouthparts yellow except extreme apex of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; antenna, 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 a diameter or less; elytral punctures a large as on pronotum, separated by less than a diameter, nearly contiguous; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with large punctures in anterior 2/3, posterior 2/3 with punctures small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 large, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head pubescent with eye wider than frons measured at vertex (135); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at anterior angle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, apical margin truncate, male anterolateral projection small, nearly invisible, not setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, evenly rounded, extended less than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, slender, wide in basal 2/3, apical 1/3 narrowed to emarginate apex; paramere wide in basal 2/3, gradually narrowed to rounded apex, dorsal margin not serrate ( Fig. 136, 137 ); sipho extremely long, slender, apical 1/ 4 filamentous, broken in image ( Fig. 138 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Brasilien , Nova Teutonia, 27 11’B. 53 23' L., Fritz Plaumann, 300 bis 500 m., xi 1936. ( USNM) . Paratype; 1, same data as holotype except date 11 xii 1949, Hovenia dulcis . ( DZUP) .

Remarks. Neaporia nora is distinguished by a combination of black dorsum, elytral punctures dense, nearly contiguous, prosternum without anterolateral projection, apically truncate 5th abdominal ventrite, and male genitalia with sipho extremely long with apical ½ filamentous.

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.