Prodilis guadalupe 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 : 64-65

10. Prodilis guadalupe Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.6 mm; body nearly round, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color bluish black ( Fig. 369 ); head with vertex reddish yellow, frons yellow ( Fig. 371 ); pronotum black with lateral 1/ 4 reddish brown; antenna, mouthparts, tibiae of legs yellow; epipleuron dark reddish brown; femora yellowish brown; ventral surface black; abdomen brownish 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 as large as on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures as large as on prosternum, sparse, separated by 2 to 4 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 as large as on metasternum, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, nearly parallel sided, twice as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, almost parallel sided, weakly widened from midpoint to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, widened from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, apical margin slightly arcuate, lateral carina slender, extended well beyond coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 2/ 3 distance to apical margin of ventrite ( Fig. 370 ). Apex of ventrite 5 very slightly emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, basal ½ wide, abruptly narrowed medially, apical ½ slen- der, apex slightly emarginate; paramere curved, slender, of equal width throughout, apex narrowly rounded, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 372 , 273 ); sipho slender, apex lost.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; N. VENEZUELA: Tray 13, FOG 3.26. iii.1990. Deciduous forest . Talisia sp. , J.G. Davies, Estado Aragua, P. Nac. Henri Pittier. Maracay / Occumare, La Trilla, 300m. alt., Bristol Univ. Exped Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.1992–6. ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species is not distinctive externally but may be recognized by the long, nearly parallel sided apical maxillary palpomere, bluish elytra combined with medially black, laterally reddish brown pronotum, and male genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere. It is similar to P. sherri externally but that species has male genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere.

Figures

Figures 369–386. Prodilis spp. 369–374) Prodilis guadalupe 369) Habitus. 370) Basal abdominal ventrites. 371) Frons. 372) Phallobase ventral. 373) Phallobase lateral. 374) Sipho. 375–379) Prodilis lindsey 375) Habitus. 376) Basal abdominal ventrites. 377) Frons. 378) Phallobase ventral. 379) Phallobase lateral. 380–386) Prodilis belinda 380) Habitus. 381) Basal abdominal ventrites. 382) Frons. 383) Phallobase ventral. 384) Phallobase lateral. 385) Sipho. 386) Female spermathecal capsule.

Figures 271–287. Neaporia spp. 271–275) Neaporia misty 271) Habitus. 272) Basal abdominal ventrites. 273) Frons. 274) Phallobase ventral. 275) Phallobase lateral. 276–281) Neaporia mae 276) Habitus. 277) Basal abdominal ventrite. 278) Frons. 279 Phallobase ventral. 280) Phallobase lateral. 281) Sipho. 282–287) Neaporia shelley 282) Habitus. 283) Basal abdominal ventrites. 284) Frons. 285) Phallobase ventral. 286) Phallobase lateral. 287) Base of sipho.