Neaporia naomi 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 : 32-33

26. Neaporia naomi Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.2 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side straight, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of fine microsculpture. Color black; elytron mostly reddish yellow except base near scutellum, internal 1/4 near suture, and apical 1/8 black ( Fig. 182 ); antenna, legs, epipleuron yellow, apical maxillary palpomere yellow except apical ½ black; abdomen pale brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures slightly smaller than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on head, 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 absent or 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 densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 183 ); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical ½. Pronotum widest at middle, 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 slightly emarginate medially, anterolateral projection small, setose Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, abruptly widened at middle, apex broadly emarginate; paramere slender in lateral view, wide in dorsal view, nearly straight, widened at basal 1/3, narrowed apically to acutely rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations ( Fig. 184, 185 ); sipho robust, equal in width throughout ( Fig. 186 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; N.E. BOLIVIA: Xylopia sericea Fogging ; 3.viii.97, Tree 10A – Tray 4, Oquiriquia forest , Tierra Prometida, J.G. Davies, BMNH (E) 1998–69. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Neaporia naomi is distinguished by the large, reddish yellow macula on each elytron and by male genitalia with paramere dorso–ventrally wide.

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.