Prodilis yvette 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 : 86-87

42. Prodilis yvette Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.6 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, nearly straight, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color dark blue ( Fig. 553 ); head yellow ( Fig. 555 ); pronotum reddish yellow; antenna, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except apex of apical maxillary palpomere brown; mesosternum, metasternum yellowish red. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; 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 punctures small, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons not densely pubescent, not widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, slightly wider than 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 short, wider than long, shorter than mesosternum, base weakly arcuate, lateral carina slender, extended anterior to procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, slightly angulate, extended beyond middle of ventrite ( Fig. 554 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, narrow basally then widened with arcuate side in apical ½, apex rounded, not emarginate; paramere slender, weakly curved, apex rounded, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 556, 557 ); sipho short, robust ( Fig. 558 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; PERU: Satipo, XI, 1942, Paprzycki. ( USNM).

Remarks. Prodilis yvette is distinctive because both head and pronotum are pale contrasted with dark blue elytron, a short prosternum, and the male genitalia with short basal lobe widened in apical ½.

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.