Neaporia maculata (Weise) Gordon & 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 : 49

49. Neaporia maculata (Weise) , new combination

Prodilis maculata Weise 1902: 175 ; Korschefsky 1931: 109; Blackwelder 1945: 444.

Description. Female holotype. Length 2.5 mm, width 1.8 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side curved, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head bluish black; pronotum bluish black except lateral margin narrowly yellow; elytron black with large, yellow, lateral macula in basal 2/3, inner margin of macula curved from anterolateral angle of elytron 3/4 distance to sutural margin medially, then curved outward to lateral margin at apical declivity ( Fig. 303 ); antenna yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical maxillary palpomere with apical 2/3 dark brown; epipleuron, legs yellow; ventral surface yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 times 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 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 not densely pubescent, frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, about 1½ times as wide as eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 304 ); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, narrowly rounded, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate medially. Genitalia not examined.

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. PERU: Marcapata

Type depository. ZMHB.

Geographical distribution. Peru.

Specimens examined. 1. Holotype.

Remarks. Neaporia maculata is distinguished from other species of Neaporia by the unique dorsal color pattern. The female holotype is labeled “Typus (red paper)/ex coll. J. Weise / marcapata (green paper)/ Prodilis maculata w ”. It is apparent from Weise’s original description that he had a single type specimen here considered to be a holotype.

Figures

Figures 303–314. Neaporia and Prodilis spp. 303, 304) Neaporia maculata 303) Habitus. 304) Frons. 305–307) Neaporia sp. 305) Apical maxillary article. Prodilis sp. 306) Apical maxillary article. Prodilis sp. 307) Apical maxillary article. 308–314) Succinctonotum frosti 308) Habitus. 309) Basal abdominal ventrites. 310) Frons. 311) Phallobase ventral. 312) Phallobase lateral. 314) Spermathecal capsule. 314) Female.