Prodilis hattie 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 : 79-80

32. Prodilis hattie Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.6 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, without trace of microsculpture. Color black; head with base of frons and vertex black, remainder of head yellow ( Fig. 499 ); pronotum with lateral 1/4 reddish yellow; elytron with oval, reddish yellow macula medially in inner 1/3 of elytron ( Fig. 497 ); antenna, mouthparts, legs reddish yellow; epipleuron dark reddish brown; abdomen with basal ventrite brown, ventrite 2 yellow with median 2/3 brown, remainder of abdomen brownish yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal, metasternal punctures large, separated by less than twice a diameter; metasternal punctures smaller than on mesosternum, separated by less than a diameter on basal and lateral borders, small, nearly absent medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 as large as on metasternum, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons weakly widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, weakly 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, with feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base weakly truncate, lateral carina slender, extended anterior to apex of coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 4/5 distance to ventrite apex. Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate ( Fig. 498 ). Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, wide, widest medially, lateral margin curved from base to abrupt apex, apex not emarginate; paramere weakly curved, slender, equal in width to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 500, 501 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Parana. ( DZUP).

Sao Carlos – SP. 14/X/1982, Marinoni, Depto. Zool, UF–

Remarks. This species has a distinctive elytral color pattern which, along with the laterally pale pronotum, will enable it to be recognized.

Figures

Figures 491–507. Prodilis spp. 491–496) Prodilis isabel 491) Habitus. 492) Basal abdominal ventrites. 493) Frons. 494) Phallobase ventral. 495) Phallobase lateral. 496) Basal portion of sipho. 497–501) Prodilis hattie 497) Habitus. 498) Basal abdominal ventrites. 499) Frons. 500) Phallobase ventral. 501) Phallobase lateral. 502–507) Prodilis harriet 502) Habitus. 503) Basal abdominal ventrites. 504) Frons. 505) Phallobase ventral. 506) Phallobase lateral. 507) Sipho.