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 30. Neaporia dianne Gordon and Hanley , new species Description. Male holotype . Length 1.6 mm , width 1.2 mm ; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black with greenish tint ( Fig. 201 ); head metallic green; pronotum and elytra with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; antenna, epipleuron, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical 1/4 of ultimate maxillary palpomere brown; 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 slightly 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 small, separated by a diameter or less; 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, slightly wider than width of eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 202 ); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin widened, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum as wide as long, about as long as mesosternum, apical margin arcuate, slightly emarginate medially, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, angulate, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, parallel sided from base nearly to apex, apex broadly emarginate; paramere slender, widest in basal 2/3, apical 1/ 3 narrower, slightly curved downward, dorsal margin with trace of blunt serrations medially ( Fig. 203, 204 ); sipho robust, nearly equal in width throughout ( Fig. 205 ). Female. Similar to male except head not densely pubescent. Variation . Length 1.5 to 1.6 mm , width 1.0 to 1.2 mm . See remarks below. Type material. Holotype male; BELIZE : Cayo ; Las Cuevas Research Station ; 550m , 16 o 44.00N , 88 o 58.24W , V/3/2000 M. Caterino , BMNH(E), 2000–124, M. Caterino. ( BMNH ) . Paratypes ; 10, 7, COSTA RICA : Heredia Pr : La Selva Biol. Sta. , 3 km S Pto. Viejo , 10 o 26'N 84 o 01'W , 8.vii.1993 , H. A. Hespenheide , additional dates 9, 10, 12. vii.1993 , Cecropia trunk ; 1, 18.4, Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta V.Paz, Guatemala, Schwarz Barber Coll; 1, San Juan Pubelo , Honduras, W M Mann Collector. ( USNM ) . Other specimens . 13. 6, COSTA RICA : Prov. Heredia , La Selva , 3 km S Pto. Viejo , 10 o 26'N 84 o 01'W , H. A. Hespenheide ; 7, MEXICO : Veracruz , Est. Biol. de Los Tuxtlas , 18 o 35'N 95 o 05'W , H. A. Hespenheide. ( USNM ) . Remarks. Neaporia dianne is one of several species with a green tinted dorsal surface that is distinguished from similar species only by the structure of male genitalia. Of the specimens not considered types , those from Costa Rica are blue dorsally, rather than green, and specimens from Mexico , although green in dorsal color, have male genitalia with a paramere slightly different from those of the Costa Rican types .