Neaporia leona Gordon and Hanley 2017, new species
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Neaporia
Neaporia leona

description: 33. Neaporia leona Gordon and Hanley, new species   
 Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.3 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color black (Fig. 215); head with yellow macula on anterior 2/3, basal margin of macula widely emarginate (Fig. 216); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin reddish brown, elytra with margin yellowish brown; antenna, epipleuron, legs except for metafemur yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3 of terminal maxillary palpomere brown; metafemur brown; ventral surface dark brown except abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than twice a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than 4 times a diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by 2 to 5 times a diameter; prosternal punctures large, separated by about a diameter; mesosternal punctures fine, sparse, widely separated; metasternum with small punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface absent or small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1, 2 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, slightly wider than width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest anterior to 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, about as long as mesosternum, apical margin weakly arcuate, without anterolateral projection. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, extended about ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to broadly emarginate apex; basal 2/3 of paramere wide, apical 1/3 narrowed to bluntly rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt serrations medially, not visible in image (Fig. 217); sipho slender (Fig. 218).   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Variation. Unknown.   
 Type material. Holotype male; N. VENEZUELA: Tray 26, FOG 5.28. iii.1990. Deciduous forest. Polygonaceae? J.G. Davies,: Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier, Maracay / Occumare 36, La Trilla, 300km. alt., Bristol Univ. Exped., Brit. Mus. Nac. Hist. 2992–6. (BMNH)   
 Remarks. A combination of male facial macula and unique structure of male genitalia distinguish N. leona from other species of black Neaporia.
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 1-158 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (601) on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170031