Neaporia irma 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 irma

description: 1. Neaporia irma Gordon and Hanley, new species   
 Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0, width 2.2; body short, wide, elytra much wider than pronotal base, widest at anterior 1/3 of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color red except head black with 3 yellow vittae, lateral vitta extended from basal 2/3 of eye to clypeus, triangularly widened at antennal insertion, middle vitta extended from apical 1/3 of eye to clypeus, weakly widened from base to apex (Fig. 47); pronotum black except narrowly reddish brown on reflexed lateral margin; elytron with dark brown macula occupying apical 1/3 of apical declivity (Fig. 45); mouthparts yellow except apical 1/3 of apical maxillary palpomere and apical labial palpomere dark brown; antenna, venter and legs yellow. Head punctures coarse, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures slightly smaller than head punctures, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than pronotal punctures, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter, nearly contiguous; metasternal punctures large, dense anteriorly and laterally, finer and sparser medially; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1, 2 large, separated by less than 3 times a diameter, inside of postcoxal lines lacking punctures, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons about as wide as an eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short, barely visible; apical maxillary palpomere narrowed to apex in apical ½ (Fig. 48). Pronotum widest at apical angle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum short, wider then long, same length as mesosternum, with apical margin medially emarginate, anterolateral projection large, round setose (Fig. 49). Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, narrow, evenly rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 mostly truncate, slightly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, wide and slightly divergent in basal ½ then narrowed in apical ½ to bluntly rounded apex; paramere widest medially, narrowed to narrowly rounded apex, dorsal margin with blunt serrations medially (Fig. 50, 51); sipho narrowed, sinuate in apical 1/8 (Fig. 52).   
 Female. Similar to male except head entirely black, without maculation. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, wide, standard form (Fig. 43).   
 Variation. Length 2.3 to 3.0 mm, width 1.7 to 2.20 mm. Dark macula on apical declivity brown to black in color, varying slightly in size, rarely completely absent.   
 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. 11.VII.1994, balsa trunk, H. A. Hespenheide. (USNM). Paratypes; 30, 11, same data as holotype except dates 28, 29,30, III.1988, 19.IV.1988, 25.IV.1989, 25.vi.1991, 31.VII.1993, 10.vii.1994, 6.vii.1996, 18.vii.1998, host data tree trunk, Heliocarpus trunk; 16, COSTA RICA: Prov. Heredia, F. La Selva, 3 km S. Pto. Viejo, 10 o 26'N 84 o 01'W., 19.vii.1982 H.A. Hespenheide, zypgopine trunk, same data except dates 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 28 vii.1982, 5, 13.iv.1983, 26.vi.1985, 9.vii.1985, 23, 30.iii.1987; 2, Turrialba, Costa Rica, June 5 June 1951, 4Vi–1951, OL Cartwright; 1, CANAL ZONE PANAMA: 100m, 5.0 mi. NW Gamboa, 09 o 10'00 N 079 o 45'00W, 23–24Oct1975, Canopy fogging experiment in Luehea seemannii Pyrethrin fog, Sample 2b 23 X 1975. (USNM).   
 Remarks. This Central American species is similar to the Ecuadorean N. mabel, see remarks under that species.
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 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170031