Neaporia brandy 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 : 34

28. Neaporia brandy Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.5 mm, width 1.1 mm; body somewhat oval, almost oblong, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color black ( Fig. 191 ); pronotum and elytra with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; antenna, epipleuron, tibia yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical 1/4 of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; legs with femur brownish yellow; 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 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 large, scattered; punctures on abdominal ventrite 1 sparse, nearly absent, punctures on ventrite 2 large, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent, frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, 1 ½ times width of eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 192 ); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. 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 about as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, apical margin arcuate, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, extended 2/3 distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, slightly widened at basal 1/3, then slightly narrowed to wide, emarginate apex, apex broadly emarginate; paramere slender, slightly bent upward in apical ½, then narrowed to bluntly rounded apex, dorsal margin not serrate ( Fig. 193, 194 ); sipho slender, slightly narrowed to widened apex ( Fig. 195 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; N. VENEZUELA: Tray 8, FOG 17.11. v.1990, Gallery forest. Cassia grandis . J.G. Davies,: Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier, Campo. experimentl CENIAP, Pozo del Diablo , 400m., British Univ. Exped. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1992–6. ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species is recognized by male genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere and short, narrow paramere bent upward in apical ½. Externally it resembles several other black or brown species of Neaporia .

Figures

Figures 191–205. Neaporia spp. 191–195) Neaporia brandy 191) Habitus. 192) Frons. 193) Phallobase ventral. 194) Phallobase lateral. 195) Sipho. 196–200) Neaporia olga 196) Habitus. 197) Frons. 198) Phallobase ventral. 199) Phallobase lateral. 200) Base of sipho. 201–205) Neaporia dianne 201) Habitus. 202) Frons. 203) Phallobase ventral. 204) Phallobase lateral. 205) Sipho.