Prodilis cribrata (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 : 101-102

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Prodilis cribrata (Gorham)
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64. Prodilis cribrata (Gorham)

Neaporia cribrata Gorham 1897: 219 . Prodilis cribrata: Korschefsky 1931: 109 ; Blackwelder 1945: 444.

Description. Female holotype. Length 1.8 mm, width 1.7 mm; body rounded, widest at middle of elytra, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color blue ( Fig. 676 View Figures 676–685 ); head black; pronotum black ( Fig. 677 View Figures 676–685 ); antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum anteriorly and laterally, 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 not widened from vertex to clypeus, about as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron weakly descending externally, wide, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, with feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base slightly arcuate, lateral carina extended to apex of coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended to midpoint of ventrite. Genitalia not examined.

Male. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. MEXICO: Teapa, Tabasco.

Type depository. BMNH.

Geographical distribution. Type locality.

Specimens examined. 1. Holotype.

Remarks. Prodilis cribrata is known only from the female holotype. It is a distinctive species because of the intensely blue elytron, dense dorsal punctures separated by less than a diameter throughout, and a very rounded body form. The holotype is labeled “Teapa, Tabasco. Feb. H.H.S/ Neaporia cribrata Gorham (handwritten)/Sp. figured./B.C.A., Col., VII/TYPE(orange bordered disc/ HOLOTYPE Neaporia cribrata Gorham , det. R.G. Booth.”

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Prodilis

Loc

Prodilis cribrata (Gorham)

Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A. 2017
2017
Loc

Neaporia cribrata

Blackwelder, E. 1945: 444
Korschefsky, R. 1931: 109
Gorham, H. S. 1897: 219
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