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
21.
Neaporia leah
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length
1.5 mm
, width 1.0 mm; body oval, elytron with lateral margin curved, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with faint microsculpture
Fig. 159
); head, pronotum reddish yellow, darker than venter; antenna, mouthparts, entire venter including legs pale yellow; elytron with lateral, apical margins narrowly reddish yellow. Head punctures small, separated by about a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with large punctures throughout, punctures separated by less than a diameter in apical, lateral 1/4, separated by about a diameter medially; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 large, separated by a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not densely pubescent with frons 1 1/4 times wider than eye measured at vertex (
Fig. 160
); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest anterior to 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, apical margin slightly emarginate, male anterolateral projection absent. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, evenly rounded, extended ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, sides more or less parallel, apex appearing bifid with each side apically rounded; paramere slender throughout, dorsal margin not serrate (
Fig. 161
); sipho lost.
Female
. Unknown.
Variation
. Unknown.
Type material.
Holotype
male; ex
Honduras
on orchid plants,
Miami
, Fla., 61–9482. (
USNM
).
Remarks.
The
holotype
was found on orchid plants shipped from
Honduras
to Florida in 1961. It is distinguished by a dorsal color pattern possessed by no other
Neaporia
species.
Male genitalia are also unusual and atypical because of the long, apically bifid basal lobe.