Neaporia daisy 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 : 47

46. Neaporia daisy Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.6 mm; body oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color blue ( Fig. 288 ); head black; pronotum with reflexed lateral margin blue; elytra with reflexed lateal margin reddish brown; antenna, epipleuron, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except maxilla dark brown; venter dark reddish brown; abdomen brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than 4 times a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; metasternum with large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface absent or small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 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, narrower than eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 290 ); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, slender, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum slightly wider than long, slightly longer than mesosternum, apical margin weakly emarginate medially, large, setose anterolateral projection present. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, slightly angulate, extended 4/5 distance to apical margin of ventrite ( Fig. 289 ). Apex of ventrite 5 slightly arcuate. Genitalia with phallobase short, basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, parallel sided in basal 4/5, apical 1/4 narrowed to slender, deep apical emargination; paramere straight, basal 2/3 wide, apical 1/3 tapered to rounded apex, dorsal margin of apical 1/3 deeply emarginate before apex, dorsal margin not serrate ( Fig. 291, 292 ); sipho short, robust ( Fig. 293 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; COSTA RICA: Turrialba , 22 June 1951, OLCartwright. ( USNM).

Remarks. This species is similar to other mostly blue species of Neaporia and is readily distinguished only by examination of the male genitalia.

Figures

Figures 288–302. Neaporia spp. 288–293) Neaporia daisy 288) Habitus. 289) Basal abdominal ventrite. 290) Frons. 291) Phallobase ventral. 292) Phallobase lateral. 293) Sipho. 294–298) Neaporia longifrons 294) Habitus. 295) Basal abdominal ventrite. 296) Frons. 297) Phallobase lateral. 298) Base of sipho. 299–302) Neaporia arrowi 299) Habitus. 300) Pro and mesosternum. 301) Female genital plates. 302) Female spermathecal capsule.