Neaporia opal 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 : 31-32

24. Neaporia opal Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.4 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black; head yellow except base of frons and vertex black; pronotum black except anterolateral angle yellow (Fig. 171); antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow. Head punctures small, 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 small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 large, separated by les than to twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not densely pubescent, frons not widened from vertex to clypeus, parallel sided, about as wide as eye measured at vertex (Fig. 173); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, narrow in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum as long as mesosternum, apical margin truncate, anterolateral projection small, not setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended about 4/5 distance to apical margin of ventrite (Fig. 172). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, slender, basal 2/3 equal in width, apical 1/3 narrowed to deeply emarginate apex (sides apically curved together which is probably an artifact of glycerin preservation); paramere widest medially, narrowed to acute, rounded apex in apical ½, margin without serrations (Fig. 174, 175); sipho short, robust (Fig. 176).

Female. Similar to male except head black. Female genitalia with spermathecal capsule lost.

Variation. Length 1.6 to 2.3 mm, width 1.0 to 1.4 mm.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Am. (Amazonas), Reserva Ducke , 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G., Ecclinusa guianensis , ll. x.1995, Tree No 150, Tray No. 1, BMNH(E) 2003–84. ( BMNH) . Paratypes; 3, 1, BRAZIL: Am. (Amazonas), Reserva Ducke , 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G., Licania micrantha , 15.x.1995, Tree No 163, Tray No. 5, BMNH(E) 2003–84 ; 1, BRAZIL: Am. (Amazonas), Reserva Ducke , 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G., Licania micrantha , 27.vi.1996, Tree No. 163, Tray No. 1 ,

BMNH(E) 2003–84; 1, BRAZIL: Amazonas , Reserva Ducke, 26km NE. Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G., Eschweilera atropetiolata , 2.v.1996, Tree No 5, Tray No. 9, BMNH(E) 2003–84. ( BMNH) .

Remarks. Neaporia opal is a nearly all black species distinguished from other Neaporia by the parallel sided frons and form of male genitalia.