Prodilis kristine 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 : 73-74

23. Prodilis kristine Gordon and Hanley , new species

Neaporia indagator: Gorham, 1897: 218 .

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.6 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest before middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny without trace of microsculpture. Color bluish black ( Fig. 447 ); head yellow except vertex black ( Fig. 448 ); pronotum bluish black except anterolateral 1/4 yellow; antenna, mouthparts, legs, prosternum yellow; epipleuron yellowish red; venter dark yellowish brown; abdomen yellowish brown basally and medially, laterally and apically yellow. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures slightly smaller than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; metasternum with basal and lateral punctures as large as on mesosternum, median punctures large, widely separated; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons wide, parallel sided, nearly twice width of 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 as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, base truncate, lateral carina wide, short, extended to apex of coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended to middle of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 very slightly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, slender, sides weakly narrowed from base to deeply emarginate apex; paramere slender, narrowed from base to rounded apex ( Fig. 449, 450 ); sipho short, robust, with complex apex ( Fig. 451 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; PANAMA: Bugaba , Panam, Champion, N. indagator , var?(handwritten), B.C.A., Col., VII. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Gorham (1897) considered this specimen a variety of Neaporia indagator . It is distinguished from other Prodilis species by a combination of pronotum with lateral 1/4 yellow, bluish black elytron, yellow prosternum, and structure of the male genitalia.

Figures

Figures 440–457. Prodilis spp. 440–446) Prodilis kristy 440) Habitus. 441) Basal abdominal ventrites. 442) Frons. 443) Phallobase ventral. 444) Phallobase lateral. 445) Sipho. 446) Female spermathecal capsule. 447–451) Prodilis kristine 447) Habitus. 448) Frons. 449) Phallobase ventral. 450) Phallobase lateral. 451) Sipho. 452–457) Prodilis plagioderina 452) Habitus. 453) Basal abdominal ventrites. 454) Frons. 455) Phallobase ventral. 456) Phallobase lateral. 457) Sipho.