Prodilis jodi 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 : 99

60. Prodilis jodi Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.5 mm; body oval, slightly elongate, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head with apical 3/4 yellow ( Fig. 655 ); pronotum with lateral 1/3 reddish brown; elytron with oval, yellow macula on outer margin from base to apical declivity; antenna, mouthparts, epipleuron, legs yellow; elytron with large, oval reddish yellow macula on lateral ½ extended from humeral angle posteriorly to apical declivity ( Fig. 653 ); abdomen yellowish brown. 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 a diameter or less; prosternal punctures small, sparse; mesosternal and metasternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less except middle of metasternum with punctures more widely spaced; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons not widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, slightly wider than 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 flat, narrow in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum about as wide as long, same length as mesosternum, base truncate, lateral carina narrow, extended nearly to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, slightly angulate, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite ( Fig. 654 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe short, wide basally, narrowed from base to abruptly pointed, emarginate apex apex, much shorter than paramere; paramere slender, nearly straight to abruptly rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 656, 657 ); sipho short, robust ( Fig. 658 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; ECUADOR: Napo, Limoncocha , 15 June 1977, P.J. Spangler & D.R. Givens # 128. ( USNM).

Other specimens. 4, PERU: Satipo, XI, 1942, Paprzycki. ( USNM).

Remarks. Prodilis jodi may be recognized by elytral color pattern, male genitalia, and Andean type locality. Specimens from Peru not designated as part of the type series are essentially identical to the holotype, but with macula on each elytron slightly larger and male genitalia with basal lobe slightly longer and more robust.

Figures

Figures 642–658. Prodilis spp. 642–647) Prodilis alberta 642) Habitus. 643) Basal abdominal ventrites. 644) Frons. 645) Phallobase ventral. 646) Phallobase lateral. 647) Sipho. 648–652) Prodilis monique 648) Habitus. 649) Basal abdominal ventrites. 650) Frons. 651) Phallobase ventral. 652) Phallobase lateral. 653–658) Prodilis jodi 653) Habitus. 654) Basal abdominal ventrites. 655) Frons. 656) Phallobase ventral. 657) Phallobase lateral. 658) Sipho.