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)
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Author
Hanley, Guy A.
text
Insecta Mundi
2017
2017-12-29
2017
601
1
158
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5170031
1942-1354
5170031
A5348E25-CC3E-476B-9AD2-0A6C3A37A61A
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.