Neaporia nina 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 : 27

18. Neaporia nina Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.3 mm, width 0.9 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side weakly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black ( Fig. 145); head dark brown with narrow lateral, yellow vitta adjacent to eye extended from near base of eye anteriorly to clypeus, vitta widened in apical 1/3, short, oval vitta present at middle posterior to clypeus ( Fig. 146); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin yellowish brown, fore angles yellow; antenna, mouthparts yellow; legs dark yellow; apical 2 abdominal ventrites brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; 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 1–2 large, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not densely pubescent, frons strongly widened from vertex to clypeus, as wide as eye measured at vertex ( Fig. 146); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, 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 as wide as long, as long as mesosternum, apical margin truncate, male without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, evenly rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 slightly emarginate medially, nearly truncate. Genitalia with phallobase strongly, evenly curved throughout, basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, parallel sided, narrowed just before apex to slightly emarginate apex; paramere slender, of equal width from base nearly to apex, narrowed apically to acutely round apex, dorsal margin without blunt serrations medially ( Fig. 147); sipho slender, slightly sinuate before apex ( Fig. 148).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Tray 1, FOG 5. 28.iii.1990, Deciduous forest , Polygonaceae ?, J. G. Davies, N. Venezuela: Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier, Maracay / Occumare km 36, La Trilla, 300m. alt., Bristol Univ. Exped., Brit. Mus. Nat. Mus. 1992–6. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Males of N. nina are recognized by the distinctive head pattern and by frons strongly widened from vertex to clypeus.