Prodilis erika 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 : 61

5. Prodilis erika Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.0 mm, width 2.2 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color brown ( Fig. 339 ); apical ½ of head yellow ( Fig. 341 ); pronotum yellow except median 1/3 light brown; antenna, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical 1/5 of terminal maxillary palpomere dark brown; ventral surface black. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than twice diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum separated by less than 3 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by 2–4 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, nearly twice as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, apical margin truncate, lateral carina slender, short, not extended anterior to coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 3/4 of ventrite ( Fig. 340 ). Apex of ventrite 5 feebly, widely emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, wide, side arcuate, apex slightly emarginate; paramere nearly straight, slender, widest medially, narrowed to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 342. 343 ); siphonal apex slender ( Fig. 344 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: ( BMNH).

3/46, Fry, Rio Jan (Rio de Janeiro), Fry Coll. 1905. 100.

Remarks. Prodilis erika is distinguished by having a pronotum paler than elytron and by structure of the male genitalia.

Figures

Figures 333–350. Prodilis spp. 333–338) Prodilis sherri 333) Habitus. 334) Basal abdominal ventrites. 335) Frons. 336) Phallobase ventral. 337) Phallobase lateral. 338) Sipho. 339–344) Prodilis erika 339) Habitus. 340) Basal abdominal ventrites. 341) Frons. 342) Phallobase ventral. 343) Phallobase lateral. 344) Sipho. 345–350) Prodilis katrina 345) Habitus. 346) Basal abdominal ventrites. 347) Frons. 348) Phallobase lateral. 349) Phallobase lateral. 350) Sipho.