Prodilis lula 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 : 68

15. Prodilis lula Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.9 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 greenish black (Fig. 400); head yellow except base of frons and vertex dark brown (Fig. 402); pronotum yellow except median 1/3 irregularly yellowish brown; elytron with suture narrowly yellow, yellow suture medially expanded to form short, diagonal yellow macula, lateral margin widely yellow in anterior 1/3 and apical 1/3, narrowly yellow in median 1/3 (Fig. 400); antenna, epipleuron, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical maxillary palpomere with apical ½ brown; ventral surface yellow; abdomen yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; 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 large apically and laterally, separated by less than a diameter, median punctures smaller, widely spaced; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–2 smaller than on metasternum, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with sides of frons divergent from vertex to clypeus, 1.2 times wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, weakly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest before middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron slightly descending externally, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, apical margin truncate; lateral carina slender, extended to apex of procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended more than ½ distance to ventrite apex (Fig. 401). Apex of ventrite 5 weakly arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, slender, sides nearly parallel to weakly emarginate apex; paramere slender, slightly curved to rounded apex, without marginal serrations (Fig. 403, 404); sipho short, robust (Fig. 405).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Tach.(Tachira), Cordero , 1200m., May 20, 1974, H. & A. Howden. ( USNM).

Remarks. This species is recognized by a unique elytral color pattern, mostly yellow pronotum, and Venezuelan type locality.