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
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5170031
1942-1354
5170031
A5348E25-CC3E-476B-9AD2-0A6C3A37A61A
35.
Neaporia felicia
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length
1.4 mm
, width 1.0 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color black; head black (Fig. 225); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown; elytron reddish yellow with triangular, black basal macula extended from base at scutellum posteriorly to middle of elytron, apex of elytron narrowly brown (Fig. 224); antenna, epipleuron, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except terminal maxillary palpomere dark brown with yellow ventral surface; ventral surface reddish yellow except abdomen yellowish 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 punctures large, separated by about a diameter; mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than twice 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 three times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head 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 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, shorter than mesosternum, apical margin arcuate, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, extended slightly less than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to narrowly, deeply emarginate apex; paramere straight in lateral view, basal 2/3 wide, apical 1/3 narrowed to bluntly rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations (Fig. 226); sipho slender, unmodified (Fig. 227).
Female.
Similar to male except head without yellow macula, spermathecal capsule short, slender, base and apex widened, cornu apically rounded, unmodified.
Variation
. Basal black macula on elytron extended posteriorly to midpoint of elytron or shorter, not reaching midpoint.
Type material.
Holotype
male;
BRAZIL
: Am. (Amazonas),
Reserva Ducke
26km
NE Manaus
,
Hurtado
, J.C.G,
Corythophora alta
,
22.vi.1996
,
Tree No
147,
Tray No.
1, BMNH(E) 2003–84. (
BMNH
)
.
Paratypes
; 5, 3, same data as holotype except dates
14.x.1995
,
08.iii.1996
,
23.iii.1996
, and
Tree No
120,
Tray No.
9,
Tree No
153,
Tray No.
3, and
Tree No
119,
Tray No.
9
;
2, same data as holotype except
Eschweilera pseudodecolorans
, Tree No
130,
Tray No.
10, Tree No 130,
Tray No.
5
.
Remarks.
A combination of small size, slender body, and unique dorsal color pattern characterize
N
.
felicia
.