Neaporia bobbie 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 : 42-43

40. Neaporia bobbie Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.0 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color yellow; head yellow with black vertex ( Fig. 254 ); pronotum yellow with median 1/3 black; elytron with small black macula at basal scutellar angle ( Fig. 252 ); ventral surface entirely yellow except apical ½ of ultimate maxillary palpomere dark 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, mesosternal punctures small, sparse or absent; 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 2 to 4 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not 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 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 slightly longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, apical margin widely, weakly emarginate, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 slightly angulate, extended 2/3 distance to apical margin of ventrite ( Fig. 253 ). Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with phallobase extremely long, slender, basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, parallel sided, apex medially emarginate with lateral angle toothed; paramere narrow, weakly curved, slightly sinuate, dorsal margin without serrations ( Fig. 255, 256 ); sipho long, slender, apical 1/8 filamentous ( Fig. 257 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Am.(Amazonas), Reserva Ducke 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G, Eschweilera pseudodecolorans , 15.x.1995, Tree No 130, Tray No. 3, BMNH (E) 2003–84. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Neaporia bobbie is distinguished by a unique dorsal color pattern, an entirely yellow, mostly impunctate ventral surface, and unusual structure of the male genitalia. It superficially resembles N. felicia in dorsal color pattern and has the same type of distribution, but male genitalia of these two species differ considerably.

Figures

Figures 252–270. Neaporia spp. 252–257) Neaporia bobbie 252) Habitus. 253) Basal abdominal ventrite. 254) Frons. 255) Phallobase ventral. 256) Phallobase lateral. 257) Sipho. 258–263) Neaporia violet 258) Habitus. 259) Basal abdominal ventrite. 260) Frons. 261) Prosternum. 262) Phallobase lateral. 263) Sipho. 264–270) Neaporia metallica 264) Habitus. 265) Basal abdominal ventrite. 266) Frons. 267) Prosternum. 268) Phallobase ventral. 269) Phallobase lateral. 270) Sipho.