Prodilis margarita 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 : 66-67

13. Prodilis margarita Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 1.7 mm.; body oval, elongate, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny without trace of microsculpture. Color blue (Fig. 387); head black, apical ½ yellowish red, basal ½ black (Fig. 389); pronotum entirely yellowish red; scutellum black; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; ventral surface black; abdomen yellowish brown, basal ventrite dark brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures slightly larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with sides of frons slightly divergent from vertex to clypeus, nearly twice as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest before middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron descending externally, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum slightly longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base strongly produced, apical margin widely, weakly emarginate; lateral carina extended beyond apex of coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to ventrite apex (Fig. 388). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, slender, side slightly rounded to deeply emarginate apex; paramere straight, wide, narrowed from wide base to rounded apex, without marginal serrations (Fig. 390, 391); sipho long, slender (Fig. 392).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro, D.F. Corcovado, X.1957, Alvarenga & Seabra. ( DZUP).

Remarks. This species is recognized by the blue elytron contrasted to yellowish red pronotum, densely, fairly coarsely punctured dorsal surface, and produced, widely emarginate anterior margin of prosternum.