Neaporia felicia 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 : 39

35. Neaporia felicia Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.4 mm, width 1.0 mm; body elongate oval, 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; head black (Fig. 225); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; elytron reddish yellow with triangular, black basal macula extended from base at scutellum posteriorly to middle of elytron, apex of elytron narrowly brown (Fig. 224); antenna, epipleuron, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except terminal maxillary palpomere dark brown with yellow ventral surface; ventral surface reddish yellow except abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal punctures large, separated by about a diameter; mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than twice 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 three times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, about as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, slender, 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, shorter than mesosternum, apical margin arcuate, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, extended slightly less than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to narrowly, deeply emarginate apex; paramere straight in lateral view, basal 2/3 wide, apical 1/3 narrowed to bluntly rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations (Fig. 226); sipho slender, unmodified (Fig. 227).

Female. Similar to male except head without yellow macula, spermathecal capsule short, slender, base and apex widened, cornu apically rounded, unmodified.

Variation. Basal black macula on elytron extended posteriorly to midpoint of elytron or shorter, not reaching midpoint.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Am. (Amazonas), Reserva Ducke 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G, Corythophora alta , 22.vi.1996, Tree No 147, Tray No. 1, BMNH(E) 2003–84. ( BMNH) . Paratypes; 5, 3, same data as holotype except dates 14.x.1995, 08.iii.1996, 23.iii.1996, and Tree No 120, Tray No. 9, Tree No 153, Tray No. 3, and Tree No 119, Tray No. 9 ; 2, same data as holotype except Eschweilera pseudodecolorans, Tree No 130, Tray No. 10, Tree No 130, Tray No. 5 .

Remarks. A combination of small size, slender body, and unique dorsal color pattern characterize N. felicia .