Prodilis sheryl 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 : 68-69

16. Prodilis sheryl Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.6 mm; oval, elongate, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny without trace of microsculpture. Color brownish yellow (Fig. 406); head yellow with vertex, base of frons brown, two slender brown vitta extended from brown base of frons anteriorly nearly to clypeus (Fig. 408); pronotum medially brown, brown area surrounded by narrow yellow border; scutellum yellow; elytron brownish yellow with sutural margin widely brown basally, brown margin narrowed to apex of elytron, lateral border broadly brown from humeral angle to just posterior to apical declivity; antenna, mouthparts, legs, ventral surface yellow including abdomen. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal, and metasternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, weakly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron slightly depressed medially, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum about as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, base slightly produced, apical margin arcuate, lateral carina slender, extended to apex of coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite (Fig. 407). Apex of ventrite 5 feebly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, wide, sides gently rounded from base to emarginate apex; paramere straight, wide, widest in basal 3/4, narrowed to rounded apex in apical 1/4, without marginal serrations (Fig. 409, 410); sipho robust, apical ½ lost (Fig. 411).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; COLOMBIA, S.A. at Hoboken, N.J., VII.17.40, Hobok. # 112, on Cattleya sp. ( USNM).

Remarks. This is not a particularly distinctive species, but it may be recognized by the uniquely patterned male head; obscurely vittate elytron, and pronotum medially brown with narrow yellow border around brown area. This is another species known only from a specimen intercepted by United States customs at Hoboken, NJ.