Prodilis belinda 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 : 66

12. Prodilis belinda Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.6 mm; body elongate oval, slender, elytron with side nearly straight, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny without trace of microsculpture. Color black; head black with yellow macula on frons, macula bisected by 2 longitudinal, narrow, black vittae ( Fig. 382 ); pronotum black except lateral margin narrowly reddish brown; elytron with 2 yellow macula, anterior macula at humeral angle occupying most of anterior ½ of pronotum, large, irregularly square, posterior macula smaller, on apical portion of apical declivity ( Fig. 380 ); antenna, legs, entire ventral surface except prosternum yellow; apical maxillary palpomere with apical ½ dark brown; prosternum yellowish red; 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 as large as on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures smaller than on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by less than 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with sides of frons parallel, nearly twice as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, nearly parallel sided, weakly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, narrowed from base to apex, with deep, vertical groove separating reflexed margin from remainder of pronotal surface. Epipleuron flat, narrow, widest in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base strongly produced, apical margin arcuate, lateral carina slender, extended just beyond apex of coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite ( Fig. 381 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, slender, weakly narrowed from base to deeply emarginate apex; paramere straight, wide basally, narrowed to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 383, 384 ); sipho long, slender ( Fig. 385 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black, female genitalia with spermathecal capsule slender, base widened, apex of cornu rounded, bursal cap rounded, weakly sclerotized, apical strut long, slender ( Fig. 386 ).

Variation. Maculae on elytron variable in size, anterior macula may be small, obliquely oval.

Type material. Holotype male; COLOMBIA: Monterredondo , Cundinamarca, Kolumb. 1400 m, leg. Schneble 1961. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 4, same data as holotype. ( USNM) .

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.