Neaporia carole 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 : 33

27. Neaporia carole Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.8 mm, width 1.4 mm; body oval, slightly elongate, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color dark brown with slight greenish tint ( Fig. 187 ); pronotum and elytra with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; antenna, epipleuron, tibiae yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical maxillary palpomere with apical 1/4 brown; legs with brown femur; ventral surface dark brown except abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; elytral punctures as large as on head, separated by less than three times a diameter; prosternum with large punctures separated by a diameter or less; mesosternum medially impunctate; metasternum nearly impunctate except some scattered, small punctures present; punctures on basal abdominal ventrites nearly absent, widely scattered, punctures on remaining ventrites small, widely separated. Head densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex ( Fig.188 ); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at 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, longer than mesosternum, apical margin arcuate, anterolateral projection small, setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, extended 3/4 distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, wide at base, evenly tapered to apex, apex widely emarginate; paramere slender, straight, evenly narrowed from basal 1/3 to acute apex, dorsal margin without serrations ( Fig. 189, 190 ); sipho lost

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 1.5 to 1.8, width 1.1 to 1.4, Dorsal surface sometimes with slightly greenish tint.

Type material. Holotype male; PANAMA: CANAL ZONE, Toro Point, CZ 31Mar11, E.A. Schwarz Collector. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 3, 1, same data as holotype ; 1, AnconCZ, Pan, 5–VI–11, E.A.Schwarz Collector; 2, Panama Pan , 2–IV–11, E.ASchwarz Collector. ( USNM) .

Remarks. This species is similar to several other dark, immaculate species of Neaporia , distinguished by nearly impunctate mesosternum and basal abdominal ventrites and form of male genitalia.

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.