Prodilis indagator (Gorham)

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 : 74-75

25. Prodilis indagator (Gorham)

Neaporia indagator Gorham 1897: 218 .

Prodilis indagator: Korschefsky 1931: 109 ; Blackwelder 1945: 444.

Description. Female lectotype. Length 2.8 mm, width 2.5 mm; body rounded, widest anterior to middle, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black (Fig.

458); head yellow except vertex and base of frons black (Fig. 460); pronotum black except anterolateral angle minutely yellow; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; abdomen yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal punctures small, nearly absent; mesosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less anteriorly and laterally, slightly smaller and more widely spaced medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–2 large, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons somewhat narrow, widened from vertex to clypeus, about 1.4 times width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron descending externally, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, with feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum about as wide as long, same length as mesosternum, base truncate, without lateral carina. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite (Fig. 459).

Male. Similar to female except basal black area of head slightly larger. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, slender, sides weakly narrowed from base to emarginate apex; paramere slender, curved, apex rounded in ventral view (Fig. 461, 462); sipho long, robust (Fig. 463).

Variation. Length 2.6 to 2.8 mm, width 2.1 to 2.5 mm. Degree of yellow area on anterolateral pronotal angle varies slightly.

Type locality. GUATEMALA Cerro Zunil.

Type depository. BMNH (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Guatemala, Panama.

Specimens examined. 4. Type series ( BMNH) ; 1, GUATEMALA: RICA: Turrialba , ( USNM) .

El Zumbador, 2500 ft.; COSTA

Remarks. Prodilis indagator most closely resembles the Brazilian P. shelley , but head color patterns differ considerably. The lectotype is labeled “Cerro Zunil, 4–5000 ft. Champion, Neaporia indagator Gorh (handwritten), sp. figured, B.C.A., Col., VII, TYPE(orange bordered disc), LECTOTYPE Neaporia indagator Gorham Gordon 1970 .” Remaining specimens designated as paralectotypes are similarly labeled but localities differ as follows; V. de Chirique, 25–4000 ft., Champion; V. de Atitlan, 25–3500 ft., Champion, and Sinanja, Vera Paz, Champion.