Pentilia jasmine Gordon and González, 2019

Gordon, Robert D., F, Guillermo González & Hanley, Guy A., 2019, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XXI: systematic revision of South American Pentilia Mulsant (Cryptognathini), Insecta Mundi 729 (729), pp. 1-27 : 8-9

7. Pentilia jasmine Gordon and González , new species

Description. Male. Length 2.6 mm, width 2.4 mm; dorsal surface with faint microsculpture except head densely alutaceous. Color black; head yellow; pronotum with lateral 1/3 yellow; elytron with 2 large, yellow maculae, anterior macula irregularly rectangular, posterior maculae on apical declivity irregularly oval ( Fig. 35 ); venter black except mouthparts, legs yellow; abdomen brown except lateral 1/4, ventrite 5 yellow. Head punctures not visible, hidden in alutaceous sculpture; pronotal punctures small, separated by a less than to twice a diameter; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by less than to 3 times a diameter, becoming larger, denser toward lateral margin; prosternum with small punctures separated by less than a diameter; mesosternum medially impunctate, lateral punctures as large as on prosternum; metasternum with punctures larger than on mesosternum, separated by less than to twice a diameter in median 1/2, punctures becoming sparse or absent in lateral 1/3; abdominal ventrites 1, 2 with coarse punctures separated by less than to twice a diameter; ventrites 3–4 finely, densely punctured medially; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons narrow, parallel sided, slightly wider than eye, clypeal apex widely emarginate, lateral angle abruptly curved ( Fig. 36 ); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side short, straight, extended from apex of intercoxal process 1/4 distance to apex of prosternum. Epipleuron strongly descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite slightly flattened medially, extended 3/4 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, sides parallel in basal 7/8, narrowed to rounded apex in apical 1/8, bent dorsally in lateral view; paramere slender, weakly curved, apex rounded ( Fig. 37, 38 ); penis short, robust, apex shortly attenuate; basal capsule slender, inner arm long, slightly curved, apically rounded, outer arm shorter than inner, apex nearly truncate ( Fig. 39 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black; genitalia with ramus of spermathecal capsule enlarged, cornu slender, abruptly curved to acute apex.

Variation. Length 2.2 to 2.6 mm, width 1.9 to 2.4 mm, size and shape of yellow elytral maculae differ slightly.

Type material. Holotype male; Colombia, Cnd (Cundinamarca), 1900 m, Guasca, Gacheta , Feb 20 ’42, Km 84 Puente Licia , Murillo No 5521 ( USNM) . Paratypes 44, 1, Monterredondo, Cundinamarca Columb. 1400 m, 1961, leg. Schneble ; 1, Monterredondo Cundinamarca Kolumb. , 1400 m, leg. Schneble 1961 ; 1, Buga Colombia Val , 4.II.41, alt. 1010 m, Murillo No 05396 ; 2, Guayata, Colombia, Boy 18.X.40, altitude 1729 m, Murillo No 5301 ; 39, Colombia, Guateque (B), Oct. 10, 1938, Murillo No. 5112 ; 1, nr Gacheta , Colombia, CND 20.31.41, altitdue 1900 m, Murillo No 5521. ( USNM) .

Remarks. Pentilia jasmine is distinguished by the two large, yellow maculae on each elytron, a pattern unique within Pentilia .

Figures

Figures 35–49. Pentilia spp. 35-39) Pentilia jasmine. 35) Habitus. 36) Frons. 37) Penis guide ventral. 38) Penis guide lateral. 39) Penis. 40-44) Pentilia rachael. 40) Habitus. 41) Frons. 42) Penis guide ventral. 43) Penis guide lateral. 44) Spermathecal capsule. 45-49) Pentilia chelsea. 45) Habitus. 46) Frons. 47) Penis guide ventral. 48) Penis guide lateral. 49) Spermathecal capsule.