Prodilis eunice 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 : 91-92

49. Prodilis eunice Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.5 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color yellow; head yellow except base of frons and vertex black ( Fig. 593 ); pronotum black; elytron with apical declivity triangularly black ( Fig. 591 ); apical maxillary palpomere yellow except extreme apex dark brown; abdomen dark brownish. Head punctures large, 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 a diameter or less; prosternal punctures small, separated by about a diameter; mesosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum separated by less than a diameter except more widely spaced medially; 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, lateral margins 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 slightly longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base arcuate medially, lateral carina wide, extended slightly beyond apex of procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, slightly angulate, extended to middle of ventrite ( Fig. 592 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with slender phallobase, basal lobe shorter than paramere, wide iin rounded base, slightly narrowed to emarginate apex; paramere long, slender, curved, apical 1/3 enlarged to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 594, 595 ); sipho robust, apical portion lost ( Fig. 596 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: 1600m. Cer. Choroni, Aragua, Feb. 26, 1971, H. & A. Howden. ( USNM).

Remarks. This species has a highly distinctive dorsal color pattern that enables it to be recognized and distinguished from other species of Prodilis .

Figures

Figures 591–607. Prodilis spp. 591–596) Prodilis eunice 591) Habitus. 592) Basal abdominal ventrites. 593) Frons. 594) Phallobase ventral. 595) Phallobase lateral. 596) Sipho, apex lost. 597–601) Prodilis angie 597) Habitus. 598) Basal abdominal ventrite. 599) Frons. 600) Phallobase ventral. 601) Phallobase lateral. 602–607) Prodilis maryann 602) Habitus. 603) Basal abdominal ventrites. 604) Frons. 605) Phallobase ventral. 606) Phallobase lateral. 607) Sipho.