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
17.
Neaporia margie
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length
1.2 mm
, width
0.9 mm
; body short, oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color brown (
Fig. 139
); head black; pronotum dark brown with lateral 1/3 slightly paler brown; mouthparts and antenna yellow; legs yellow except anterior 1/3 of profemur, basal 1/4 of protibia brownish yellow; apical 2 abdominal ventrites yellow. 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 larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, shallow, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with few weakly impressed, large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface small, nearly invisible; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–2 large, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not densely pubescent, frons narrow, about ½ width of eye measured at vertex (
Fig. 141
); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. 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. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, with apical margin arcuate, male without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, abruptly angulate, extended to apical margin of ventrite (
Fig. 140
). Apex of ventrite 5 truncate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, evenly narrowed from base to blunt, emarginate apex; paramere slender, evenly narrowed in apical half to narrowly rounded apex in lateral view, dorsal margin without blunt serrations (
Fig. 142, 143
); sipho slender throughout, not apically narrowed (
Fig.144
).
Female.
Unknown.
Variation
. Unknown.
Type material.
Holotype
male; N.E.
BOLIVIA
:
Xylopa sericea
, Fogging
, 3.vii.97, Tree 10B, Tray 5,
Oquriquia forest
,
Tierra Prometida, J.G
. Davies, BMNH(E), 1998–69. (
BMNH
).
Remarks.
This tiny species is not easily distinguished from other brown or black species of
Neaporia
,
but a lack of distinct, large prosternal and mesosternal punctures, abdominal ventrite 1 with long, angulate postcoxal line, and a narrow frons about ½ width of an eye serve to characterize
N
.
margie
.