Neaporia leah Gordon and Hanley 2017, new species
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Description. Male holotype. Length 1.5 mm, width 1.0 mm; body oval, elytron with lateral margin curved, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with faint microsculpture Fig. 159); head, pronotum reddish yellow, darker than venter; antenna, mouthparts, entire venter including legs pale yellow; elytron with lateral, apical margins narrowly reddish yellow. Head punctures small, separated by about a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with large punctures throughout, punctures separated by less than a diameter in apical, lateral 1/4, separated by about a diameter medially; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–3 large, separated by a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head not densely pubescent with frons 1 1/4 times wider than eye measured at vertex (Fig. 160); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest anterior to middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, apical margin slightly emarginate, male anterolateral projection absent. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, evenly rounded, extended ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 truncate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, sides more or less parallel, apex appearing bifid with each side apically rounded; paramere slender throughout, dorsal margin not serrate (Fig. 161); sipho lost.
Female. Unknown.
Variation. Unknown.
Type material. Holotype male; ex Honduras on orchid plants, Miami, Fla., 61–9482. (USNM).
Remarks. The holotype was found on orchid plants shipped from Honduras to Florida in 1961. It is distinguished by a dorsal color pattern possessed by no other Neaporia species. Male genitalia are also unusual and atypical because of the long, apically bifid basal lobe.
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5170057 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5170031 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB7F368D814FF80BF56E4652816FFCA (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A5348E25-CC3E-476B-9AD2-0A6C3A37A61A (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/038E8B10D80AFF9EBF96E7E62BF4F8F1 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Scientific name authorship
- Gordon and Hanley
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Neaporia
- Species
- leah
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neaporia leah Gordon & Hanley, 2017