Neaporia priscilla 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 : 32

25. Neaporia priscilla Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.5 mm, width 1.0 mm; body elongate, oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black ( Fig. 177 ); pronotum and dlytra with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; ventral surface dark brown except abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as 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 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, 1 ½ times width of eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 178 ); 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 wider than long, about as long as mesosternum, apical margin truncate, anterolateral projection small, not setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, slender, parallel sided from base nearly to apex, apex broadly emarginate; paramere slender, slightly curved, of equal width from base nearly to apex, narrowed apically to acutely rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt, median serrations in apical ½ ( Fig. 179, 180 ); sipho slender, slightly narrowed to acute apex ( Fig. 181 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; TRINIDAD: Savanna , St. Clair , Port –of– Spain, Trin. Oct. 24, 1918, A817, Harold Morrison. ( USNM).

Remarks. This species is similar to several other black, immaculate species of Neaporia , distinguished only by examination of male genitalia and Trinidad type locality.

Figures

Figures 177–190. Neaporia spp. 177–181) Neaporia priscilla 177) Habitus. 178) Frons. 179) Phallobase ventral. 180) Phallobase lateral. 181) Sipho. 182–186) Neaporia naomi 182) Habitus. 183) Frons. 184) Phallobase ventral. 185) Phallobase lateral. 186) Sipho. 187–190) Neaporia carole 187) Habitus. 188) Frons. 189) Phallobase ventral. 190) Phallobase lateral.