Prodilis mamie 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 : 94-95

54. Prodilis mamie Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 2.0 mm; body widely oval, somewhat rounded, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color dark brown; head black with anterior 1/3 yellow, base of yellow area tridentate ( Fig. 622 ); pronotum with median 1/3 dark brown, lateral 1/3 paler reddish brown; elytron with small, irregularly rounded, median yellow macula ( Fig. 620 ); antenna, legs yellow; mouthparts yellowish brown to dark brown; epipleuron brownish yellow; venter reddish brown; abdomen yellow except basal ventrite medially yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; prosternal punctures large, separated by less than twice a diameter; mesosternal punctures nearly absent; metasternal punctures large, sparse, confined to anterior and lateral borders; 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 widened from vertex to clypeus, 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 descending externally, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum wider than long, longer than mesosternum, base truncate medially, lateral carina narrow, extended to apex of procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, angulate, extended almost to apex of ventrite ( Fig. 621 ). Apex of ventrite 5 truncate. Genitalia with slender phallobase, basal lobe slender, shorter than paramere, sides weakly curved to slightly emarginate apex; paramere long, slender, widest in basal ½, apically narrow, curved to acute apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 623, 624 ); sipho short, robust ( Fig. 625 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Am.(Amazonas), Reserva Ducke , 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G., Micropholis guyanensis , 02.v.1996, Tree No 6, Tray No. 4, BMNH(E) 2003–84. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Prodilis mamie is distinguished by a distinctively maculate elytron, the male head pattern; and a short, wide mesosternum.

Figures

Figures 608–625. Prodilis spp. 608–613) Prodilis lynda 608) Habitus. 609) Basal abdominal ventrites. 610) Frons. 611) Phallobase ventral. 612) Phallobase lateral. 613) Sipho. 614–619) Prodilis madeline 614) Habitus. 615) Basal abdominal ventrites. 616) Frons. 617) Phallobase ventral 618) Phallobase lateral. 619) Sipho. 620–625) Prodilis mamie 620) Habitus. 621) Basal abdominal ventrites. 622) Frons. 623) Phallobase ventral. 624) Phallobase lateral. 625) Sipho.