Prodilis angie 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 : 92

50. Prodilis angie Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.0 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head yellow except base of frons and vertex black ( Fig. 599 ); pronotum black; elytron with large, oval yellow macula on outer margin from base to apical declivity ( Fig. 597 ); antenna, mouthparts, epipleuron, meso– and metasternum; legs yellow; abdomen brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, 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 or absent medially; 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 widened from vertex to clypeus, lateral margins 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 wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base arcuate medially, lateral carina wide, extended nearly to apex of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, angulate, extended slightly less than 2/3 distance to apex of ventrite ( Fig. 598 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with slender phallobase, basal lobe shorter than paramere, slender, narrowed from base to emarginate apex; paramere long, slender, curved, apical 1/3 enlarged to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 600, 601 ); sipho lost.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; Archbold Estate , Roxborough, Tobago, Nov. 6, 1918. A–936, Harold Morrison. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 2, Morne Bleu , 2700', Trinidad. W.I., Aug. 15, 1969, H. & A. Howden. ( USNM) .

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.