Neaporia mae 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 : 45-46

44. Neaporia mae Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.6 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; pronotum with reflexed lateral margin black; elytron with single yellowish red macula located medially in anterior ½ of elytron ( Fig. 276 ); antenna, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical ½ of terminal maxillary palpomere dark brown; epipleuron reddish brown; abdomen 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 a diameter or less; metasternum with large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface absent or small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrite 1–3 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, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 278 ); 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, slightly longer than mesosternum, apical margin truncate, without apparent anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 4/5 distance to apical margin of ventrite ( Fig. 277 ). Apex of ventrite 5 widely, shallowly emarginate medially. Genitalia with phallobase short, basal lobe shorter than paramere, wide, parallel sided in basal 3/4, apical 1/4 narrowed to narrowly, deeply emarginate apex; paramere straight, slender in basal 4/5, narrowed to acute apex in apical 1/5, dorsal surface with short, wide projection in basal 1/3, serrations present in apical 1/3 ( Fig. 279, 280 ); sipho slender, apical 1/5 slightly sinuate ( Fig. 281 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 2.0– 2.1 mm. Serrations on dorsal surface of male paramere may be noticeably larger, more distinct than in holotype.

Type material. Holotype male; N. E. BOLIVIA: Xylopia sericea, Fogging ; 26.vii.97, Tree 2A – Tray 3, Oquinquia forest , Tierra Prometida, J. G. Davies, BMNH(E) 1998–69. ( BMNH) . Paratypes; 2, BOLIVIA: Coripata , 24km. W., P. Spangler. ( USNM) .

Remarks. Neaporia mae is characterized by the elytral color pattern, long postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite nearly reaching apical margin of ventrite, and male genital paramere with unique dorsal margin.

Figures

Figures 271–287. Neaporia spp. 271–275) Neaporia misty 271) Habitus. 272) Basal abdominal ventrites. 273) Frons. 274) Phallobase ventral. 275) Phallobase lateral. 276–281) Neaporia mae 276) Habitus. 277) Basal abdominal ventrite. 278) Frons. 279 Phallobase ventral. 280) Phallobase lateral. 281) Sipho. 282–287) Neaporia shelley 282) Habitus. 283) Basal abdominal ventrites. 284) Frons. 285) Phallobase ventral. 286) Phallobase lateral. 287) Base of sipho.