Prodilis lola 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 : 95-96

55. Prodilis lola Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.5 mm, width 2.0 mm; body widely oval, rounded, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest before middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color bluish black ( Fig. 626 ); head black with anterior ½ yellow, base of yellow area narrowly emarginate ( Fig. 628 ); pronotum black; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; epipleuron dark reddish brown; venter medially black, dark reddish brown laterally; abdomen yellow except basal ventrite medially yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; mesosternal and metasternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less except lateral 1/3 of metasternum with punctures more widely spaced; abdomen with punctures on ventrites nearly absent, large, widely separated, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons wide, slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, twice 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 strongly descending externally, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, with feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum wider than long, longer than mesosternum, base arcuate, lateral carina narrow, extended to apex of procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, abruptly angulate, extending almost to ventrite apex ( Fig. 627 ). Apex of ventrite 5 broadly, weakly emarginate. Genitalia with slender phallobase, basal lobe slender, shorter than paramere, sides slightly curved to barely perceptibly emarginate apex; paramere long, slender, widest in basal ½, apical ½ slender, sinuately narrowed to acute apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 629, 630 ); sipho short, robust ( Fig. 631 ).

Female. Similar to male except head bluish black. Genitalia with spermathecal capsule slender, basal ½ wide, cornu apically rounded.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; COSTA RICA: Heredia, Est.Biol. La Selva, 5–150m 10 o 26'N 84 o 01'W, Prov. ALAS, INBio–OET, FOT/29/19, Saccoglottis trichogyna, 23 Octubre 1994, ( HHSC). Partypes; 4, 1,

same data as holotype ; 2, same data as holotype except 17 Mayo 2000, FOT/52/01–40, goethalsia meiantha ; 1, FOT/46/01–40, Eugenia sp., 05 Enero 2000. ( USNM) .

Remarks. Prodilis lola is not particularly distinctive, but the bluish black dorsal surface, rounded body, abruptly angulate postcoxal line, and Costa Rican type locality are distinguishing characters. Prodilis species are somewhat unusual in Central America, therefore P. lola becomes easily recognizable in that geographic region.

Figures

Figures 626–641. Prodilis spp. 626–631) Prodilis lola 626) Habitus. 627) Basal abdominal ventrites. 628) Frons. 629) Phallobase ventral. 630) Phallobase lateral. 631) Sipho, apex lost. 632–636) Prodilis amelia 632) Habitus. 633) Basal abdominal ventrites. 634) Frons. 635) Phallobase ventral. 636) Phallobase lateral. 637–641) Prodilis inez 637) Habitus. 638) Basal abdominal ventrite. 639) Frons. 640) Phallobase ventral. 641) Phallobase lateral.