Prodilis flora Gordon and 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 : 76

27. Prodilis flora Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.4 mm, width 3.0 mm; body rounded, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface densely rugose, punctures small but barely visible in surface rugosity. Color black (Fig. 469); head yellow except base of frons and vertex black (Fig. 471); pronotum entirely black; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; venter black medially except lateral 1/4 dull brown; abdomen yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as small as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures small, as large as on pronotum, nearly invisible; prosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; mesosternal, metasternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 small, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons wide, weakly widened from vertex to clypeus, about 1.4 times wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron descending externally, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum wider than long, about as long as mesosternum, base broadly, feebly emarginate, lateral carina slender, extended anterior to apex of procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 3/4 distance to apex of ventrite (Fig. 470). Apex of ventrite 5 slightly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slen- der, sides weakly narrowed from base to emarginate apex; paramere slender, slightly curved, apex pointed (Fig. 472, 473); sipho lost.

Female. Similar to male except head black. Spermathecal capsule short, wide, nearly equal in width throughout, apex of cornu rounded.

Variation. Length 2.7–3.4 mm, width 2.4–3.0 mm. Paratype with blue elytron.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: 1100m, Rancho Grande , Aragua, Feb. 22–23, 1971, H. & A. Howden. ( USNM) . Paratype; 1, same data as holotype. ( USNM) .

Remarks. Prodilis flora is characterized by the densely rugose elytral surface not known in any other Prodilis .