Prodilis jan 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 : 85

40. Prodilis jan Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.5 mm; body oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color black ( Fig. 541 ); head pale yellow except base of frons and vertex black ( Fig. 543 ); antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; abdomen dark brown to black. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures basally and laterally as large as on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less, median and posteromedian punctures small, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons not widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, 1.4 times 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 flat, narrow in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base truncate, lateral carina wide, slightly sinuate, extended nearly to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 3/4 distance to apex of ventrite ( Fig. 542 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with phallobase long, slender, basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, sides nearly parallel but weakly widened at apical 1/3, apex acute, not emarginate; paramere slender, weakly curved, apex rounded, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 544, 545 ); sipho long, slender, apical 1/4 filamentous ( Fig. 546 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; PERU: Satipo , IX–X.1942, Papyrzycki. ( USNM).

Remarks. This species is not outwardly distinct, but has unique male genitalia by which it may be recognized.

Figures

Figures 541–558. Prodilis spp. 541–546) Prodilis jan 541) Habitus. 542) Basal abdominal ventrites. 543) Frons. 544) Phallobase ventral. 545 Phallobase lateral. 546) Sipho 547–552) Prodilis alison 547) Habitus. 548) Basal abdominal ventrites. 549) Frons. 550) Phallobase ventral. 551) Phallobase lateral. 552) Sipho. 553–558) Prodilis yvette 553) Habitus. 554) Basal abdominal ventrite. 555) Frons. 556) Phallobase ventral. 557) Phallobase lateral. 558) Sipho.