Prodilis compta (Gorham) Gordon & 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 : 88-89

45. Prodilis compta (Gorham) , new combination

Neaporia compta Gorham 1897: 222 ; Korschefsky 1931: 109; Blackwelder 1945: 444.

Description. Male. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.7 mm; body rounded, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface without trace of microsculpture. Color bluish black; head yellow ( Fig. 573 ); pronotum, scutellum yellow ( Fig. 571 ); elytron bluish black except apex narrowly reddish yellow; antenna, venter of thorax, legs yellow; remainder of venter yellowish brown; mouthparts yellow except apical ½ of terminal maxillary palpomere brown; abdomen yellow except median 1/3 of basal ventrite brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal punctures small, sparse, nearly absent; mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures large basally and laterally, separated by less than a diameter, smaller and widely separated medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, smaller than on mesosternum, separated by about a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, 1.4 times width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, weakly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest near base, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum as long as wide, about as long as mesosternum, base arcuate, lateral carina narrow, extended 3/4 distance to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, abruptly angulate, extended 4/5 distance to apex of ventrite ( Fig. 572 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, sides arcuate from base to blunt apex, apex not emarginate; paramere slender, slightly curved, parallel sided to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 574 ), sipho lost.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. PANAMA: V. de Chiriqui (holotype).

Type depository. BMNH.

Geographical distribution. Panama.

Specimens examined. 1. The holotype. PANAMA: Volcan de Chiriqui. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Prodilis compta is recognized by a bluish black elytron contrasted by entirely yellow head and pronotum, prosternal carinae extended 3/4 distance to base of prosternum, and the Panamanian type locality. The BMNH male holotype is labeled “V. de Chiriqui, 2–3000 ft., Champion/ Neaporia compta G.(handwritten)/Sp. figured/Type (orange bordered disc/B.C.A.,Col.,VII.” This is the only type specimen present in the BMNH and the original description seems to apply to a single specimen, hence it is the holotype.

Figures

Figures 559–574. Prodilis spp. 559–564) Prodilis melody 559) Habitus. 560) Basal abdominal ventrites. 561) Frons. 562) Phallobase ventral. 563) Phallobase lateral. 564) Sipho. 565–570) Prodilis bipunctata 565) Habitus. 566) Basal abdominal ventrites. 567) Frons. 568) Phallobase ventral. 569) Phallobase lateral. 570) Sipho. 571– 574) Prodilis compta 571) Habitus. 572) Basal abdominal ventrites. 573) Frons. 574) Phallobase ventral.