Ponaria hurtadoi 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 : 110-111

4. Ponaria hurtadoi Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male. Length 1.1 mm, width 0.7 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black with faint greenish tint (Fig. 718); head black; pronotum and elytra with margin narrowly reddish brown; antenna yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical palpomere mostly dark brown; legs, epipleuron yellowish brown; ventral surface dark brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal punctures absent; mesosternal punctures sparse, nearly absent; metasternal punctures absent or nearly so; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1/3 large, widely separated, punctures on remaining ventrites small, sparse. Head with frons not densely pubescent, narrow, about ½ width of eye measured at vertex (Fig. 720); apical maxillary palpomere elongate, feebly widened from base to apex. 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, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base truncate, lateral carina slender, angled toward middle at apex, extended to apex of procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, strongly angulate, extended almost to apex of ventrite (Fig. 719). Apex of ventrite truncate, arcuate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slen- der, narrowed from base to apex but sides curved, apex abruptly rounded; paramere slender, sides parallel to rounded apex (Fig.721, 722); sipho robust, straight in apical 2/3 (Fig. 723).

Female. Similar to male. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule abruptly bent at basal 1/3.

Variation. Length 1.1 to 1.2 mm. Dorsal color varies from black to black with faint greenish tint.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Am. Reserva Ducke, 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado , J.C.G., Eschweilera pseudodecoloratans , 15.x.1995, Tree No. 130 Tray No. 6, BMNH(E) 2003–84. ( BMNH) . Paratypes 5, same data as holotype except Tray No 5 ; Micropholis guyanensis , 18.x.1995, Tree No. 98 Tray No. 2, 3, 8 ; Coryphantha alta . 18.x.1995; Tree No. 104 Tray No 9. ( BMNH) .

Remarks. Ponaria hurtadoi is similar to P. daviesi but distinguished from that species by yellowish brown legs, male genitalia with sides rounded throughout, female spermathecal capsule abruptly bent in basal 1/3; and Brazilian type locality.

Etymology. This species is named for the collector of the type series.