Neaporia arrowi Brethes Gordon 1970
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Neaporia
Neaporia arrowi

description: 48. Neaporia arrowi Brèthes   
 Neaporia arrowi Brèthes 1925a: 207.   
 Prodilis arrowi: Korschefsky 1931: 109: Blackwelder 1945: 444.   
 Description. Female. Length 3.1 mm, width 2.0 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side straight, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black (Fig. 299); head black with narrow, yellow vitta on each side next to eye (not seen in image), frontal apex reddish yellow (Fig. 301); antenna yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical maxillary palpomere with apical 1/3 dark brown; legs yellow except femur brownish yellow; basal 2 abdominal ventrites black, apical 3 ventrites mostly yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than twice a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; elytral punctures large, coarse, 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 1–3 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, slightly less than width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum about as wide as long, longer than mesosternum (Fig. 300). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, narrowly rounded, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate medially. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule slender, base not enlarged, cornu wide, apex rounded (Fig. 302); Genital plates as in Fig. 301.   
 Male. Unknown.   
 Variation. None observed.   
 Type locality. l’ile Santo Amaro, Brazil.   
 Type depository. BMNH (lectotype here designated).   
 Geographical distribution. Brazil.   
 Specimens examined. 2. BRAZIL: Lectotype labeled “ Type (orange bordered disc)/ Ilha Santo Amaro nr. Santos, G. E. Bryant, 22.IV.1912 / G. Bryant Coll. 1919–147/ Neaporia arrowi Brethes / LECTOTYPE Neaporia arrowi Brethes Gordon 1970; paralectotype “ Alto da Serra, Sao Paulo, Brazil. G. E. Bryant, 21.III.1912 / G. Bryant Coll. 1919–147/ Neaporia arrowi Brethes / Syntype (blue bordered disc).” (BMNH).   
 Remarks. Neaporia arrowi is similar to some other species of the genus, but a black head with reddish yellow clypeus, a mostly black body, and densely punctured elytra will usually distinguish this species. The female labeled as a type is here designated and labeled as the lectotype. The female syntype is here designated and labeled as a paralectotype.
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 48-49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170031