Prodilis pubescens (Gorham)

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 : 103-104

66. Prodilis pubescens (Gorham)

Neaporia pubescens Gorham 1897: 221 . Prodilis pubescens: Korschefsky 1931: 110 ; Blackwelder 1945: 444.

Description. Female holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.7 mm; body oval, widest at middle of elytra, elytron with side weakly rounded, wider than pronotal base, straight in the middle. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color brown; head reddish brown ( Fig. 684 ); pronotum reddish brown becoming slightly paler in lateral 1/3; elytron with 3 pale, reddish yellow maculae, anterolateral angle with short narrow macula anterior to humeral callus, not visible in image, large, oval, diagonal macula present on anterior ½, apical macula on 1/3 of elytron reddish yellow ( Fig. 682 ); antenna yellow; mouthparts brownish yellow except terminal maxillary palpomere brown; mesosternum, hypomeron, legs reddish yellow; prosternum reddish brown; ventral surface brown tinged with red. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternum, mesosternum with large punctures separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum anteriorly and laterally, separated by a diameter or less anteriorly and laterally, small and sparse medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 small, widely separated, punctures on remaining ventrites slightly smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, 1.5 times width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, wide, enlarged from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex, diagonal depression present at lateral 1/3 closely resembling that of Neaporia species. Epipleuron flat, wide, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum slightly wider than long, longer than mesosternum, base arcuate, lateral carina extended nearly to base of prosternum coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, abruptly angulate, extended 3/4 distance to apex of ventrite ( Fig. 683 ). Genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, ramus enlarged, apex of cornu rounded ( Fig. 685 ).

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. PANAMA: V. de Chiriqui, 2–3000 ft.

Type depository. BMNH.

Geographical distribution. Type locality.

Specimens examined. 1. Holotype.

Remarks. Prodilis pubescens is unique within Prodilis by having the diagonal pronotal depression as in Neaporia . It is also distinguished by an elytron with a unique color pattern. The holotype is labeled “V, de Chiriqui, 2–3000 ft., Champion./ Neaporia pubescens (handwritten)/ sp. figured/ Holotype (orange bordered disc)/B.C.A.,Col.,VII./ Holotype Neaporia pubescens Gorh. det. R,G, Booth 2015.”

Figures

Figures 676–685. Prodilis spp. 676–677) Prodilis cribrata 676) Habitus. 677) Frons. 678–681) Prodilis unipunctata 678) Habitus. 679) Basal abdominal ventrites. 680) Frons. 681) Female spermathecal capsule. 682–685) Prodilis pubescens 682) Habitus. 683) Basal abdominal ventrites. 684) Frons. 685) Female spermathecal capsule.