Neaporia becky 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 : 42

39. Neaporia becky Gordon and Hanley, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.1 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black (Fig. 246); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin black; antenna yellow; mouthparts yellow except anterior ½ of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; epipleuron, anterolateral prosternal projection, legs yellowish brown; abdomen dark brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; 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 a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent, frons widened from vertex to clypeus, about as wide eye measured at vertex (Fig. 248); 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 wider than long, as long as mesosternum, apical margin truncate, with setose anterolateral projection, projection large, occupying more than ½ of prosternum (Fig. 249). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite (Fig. 247). Apex of ventrite 5 broadly, weakly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, mostly parallel sided but side slightly emarginate, narrowed just before apex, apex narrowly, deeply emarginate; paramere slender, dorsal side sinuate, apical 1/5 narrowed to curved apex, with large, blunt dorsal tooth just before apex, dorsal margin with median serrations (Fig. 250); sipho slen- der, apex truncate (Fig. 251).

Female. Similar to male except head not densely pubescent.

Variation. Length 1.6–1.7 mm, width 1.1–1.2 mm. Spacing of dorsal punctures variable.

Type material. Holotype male; TRINIDAD: Palo Seco, iv.1959, F.D. Bennett, Pred. on Asterolecanium on bamboo, C.I.E. COLL. No. 16530, Pres By Com Inst Ent BM 1959–3, Prodilis sp. nr. gorhami Brethes, R.D Pope det. 1959. ( BMNH). Paratypes; 25, same data as holotype except without Pope det. label. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Not easily distinguished from several other black species of Neaporia except males readily recognized by the extremely large prosternal anterolateral projection occupying more than ½ of prosternal surface.