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
25.
Neaporia priscilla
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length
1.5 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, lacking microsculpture. Color black (
Fig. 177
); pronotum and dlytra with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; ventral surface dark brown except abdomen yellowish 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 less than 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 twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, 1 ½ times width of eye measured at vertex (
Fig. 178
); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, 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, about as long as mesosternum, apical margin truncate, anterolateral projection small, not setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, slender, parallel sided from base nearly to apex, apex broadly emarginate; paramere slender, slightly curved, of equal width from base nearly to apex, narrowed apically to acutely rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt, median serrations in apical ½ (
Fig. 179, 180
); sipho slender, slightly narrowed to acute apex (
Fig. 181
).
Female.
Unknown.
Variation
. Unknown.
Type material.
Holotype
male;
TRINIDAD
:
Savanna
,
St. Clair
,
Port
–of–
Spain
, Trin.
Oct. 24, 1918
, A817, Harold Morrison. (
USNM
).
Remarks.
This species is similar to several other black, immaculate species of
Neaporia
, distinguished only by examination of male genitalia and
Trinidad
type
locality.