Prodilis maggie 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 : 100-101

62. Prodilis maggie Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.8 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head black with yellow macula on each side medially adjacent to eye, apex narrowly reddish yellow ( Fig. 667 ); pronotum black with anterolateral angles reddish brown; elytron with 2 large, reddish yellow maculae, macula on anterior 1/3 irregularly rounded, median, extended from humeral callus to inner 1/4 of elytron, macula on apical declivity irregularly rounded, median ( Fig. 665 ); antenna yellow; mouthparts yellow except maxilla dark brown; epipleuron dark brown, nearly black; legs dark brown except base of femur reddish yellow; venter reddish brown; abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal punctures large, sparse; mesosternal punctures smaller than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures slightly smaller than on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less anteriorly and laterally, slightly smaller and more widely spaced medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, slightly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, 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 wide, sinuate, extended nearly to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended slightly beyond midpoint of ventrite ( Fig. 666 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe short, wide basally, narrowed from base to abruptly emarginate apex, much shorter than paramere; paramere slender, weakly curved, slightly sinuate to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 668, 669 ); sipho short, robust ( Fig. 670 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; COLOMBIA: S. America, Fry Coll. 1905.100. ( BMNH).

Remarks. Prodilis maggie and the preceding three species have nearly identical male genitalia, but each is distinguished by dorsal color pattern.

Figures

Figures 659–675. Prodilis spp. 659–664) Prodilis janie 659) Habitus. 660) Basal abdominal ventrites. 661) Frons. 662) Phallobase ventral. 663) Phallobase lateral. 664) Sipho. 665–670) Prodilis maggie 665) Habitus. 666) Basal abdominal ventrites. 667) Frons. 668) Phallobase ventral. 669) Phallobase lateral. 670) Sipho. 671–675) Prodilis sonya 671) Habitus. 672) Basal abdominal ventrite. 673) Frons. 674) Phallobase ventral. 675) Phallobase lateral.