Neaporia christy 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 : 22

11. Neaporia christy Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.7 mm, width 1.3 mm; body somewhat elongate, elytral sides rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color greenish black, lateral border of pronotum yellow (Fig. 104); mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3, basal 1/4 of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; antenna, legs yellow; ventral surface black except abdomen dark brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on head, separated by 1 to 2 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 less than a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent with frons as wide as an eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3 (Fig. 106). Pronotum widest at apical angle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, slightly narrowed in basal ½, not as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, with basal margin strongly produced, nearly concealing mouthparts, male anterolateral projection small, barely visible, slightly setose (Fig. 107). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, narrow, angulate, extended 2/3 distance to apical margin of ventrite (Fig. 105). Apex of ventrite 5 truncate. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, parallel sided, slightly narrowed to emarginate apex in apical 1/4; paramere widest medially, gradually narrowed in basal 2/3 except abruptly narrowed at 3/5 length, apical 1/3 strongly bent downward, strongly narrowed to abruptly rounded apex, dorsal margin without serrations medially (Fig. 108, 109); sipho nearly equal in width throughout, apex broadly rounded, broken in image (Fig. 110).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; COSTA RICA: Heredia, Pr : La Selva Biol. Sta., 3 km S Pto. Viejo, 10 o 26' N 84 o 01' W, 24.VIII.1999, H.A. Hespenheide. ( USNM).

Remarks. Male genitalia of this species are nearly identical to those of N. myrtle , but the expanded apical prosternal margin is distinctive. See remarks under N. lena .