Neaporia leah Gordon and Hanley, 2017

Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2017, 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), Insecta Mundi 2017 (601), pp. 1-158 : 29

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.

Figures

Figures 149–161. Neaporia spp. 149–153) Neaporia viridiscens 149) Habitus. 150) Frons. 151) Phallobase ventral. 152) Phallobase lateral. 153) Sipho. 154–158) Neaporia cassandra 154) Habitus. 155) Frons. 156) Phallobase ventral. 157) Phallobase lateral. 158) Sipho. 159–161) Neaporia leah 159) Habitus. 160) Frons. 161) Phallobase lateral.