Neaporia leona 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 : 37-38

33. Neaporia leona Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.3 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black ( Fig. 215 ); head with yellow macula on anterior 2/3, basal margin of macula widely emarginate ( Fig. 216 ); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown, elytra with margin yellowish brown; antenna, epipleuron, legs except for metafemur yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3 of terminal maxillary palpomere brown; metafemur brown; ventral surface dark brown except abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than twice a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than 4 times a diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by 2 to 5 times a diameter; prosternal punctures large, separated by about a diameter; mesosternal punctures fine, sparse, widely separated; metasternum with small punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface absent or small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1, 2 large, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest anterior to 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, about as long as mesosternum, apical margin weakly arcuate, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, extended about ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to broadly emarginate apex; basal 2/3 of paramere wide, apical 1/3 narrowed to bluntly rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt serrations medially, not visible in image ( Fig. 217 ); sipho slender ( Fig. 218 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; N. VENEZUELA: Tray 26, FOG 5.28. iii.1990. Deciduous forest . Polygonaceae ? J.G. Davies,: Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier, Maracay / Occumare 36, La Trilla, 300km. alt., Bristol Univ. Exped., Brit. Mus. Nac. Hist. 2992–6. ( BMNH)

Remarks. A combination of male facial macula and unique structure of male genitalia distinguish N. leona from other species of black Neaporia .

Figures

Figures 206–218. Neaporia spp. 206–210) Neaporia kayla 206) Habitus. 207) Frons. 208) Phallobase ventral. 209) Phallobase lateral. 210) Sipho. 211–214) Neaporia tracey 211) Elytron. 212) Frons. 213) Phallobase ventral. 214) Sipho. 215–218) Neaporia leona 215) Habitus. 216) Frons. 217) Phallobase ventral. 218. Sipho.