Prodilis monique 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 : 98-99

59. Prodilis monique Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 mm, width 1.3 mm; body elongate oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head black with yellow macula on each side adjacent to eye, macula oval, extended from middle of eye to antennal insertion, not seen in image ( Fig. 650 ); pronotum dark brown with lateral 1/4 reddish yellow; elytron with diagonal yellow vitta in lateral ½ ( Fig. 648 ) antenna yellow in basal ½, outer ½ brown; mouthparts brownish yellow except maxilla dark brown; tibia reddish yellow, femur brown; epipleuron dark reddish brown; ventral surface black; abdomen dark brown. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternum with large punctures separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures on basal and lateral margins small, separated by less than a diameter, smaller and more widely spaced or absent 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 widened from vertex to clypeus, 1.4 times width of eye measured at vertex, frons extended well beyond antennal insertion; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere very long, slender, longer than remainder of maxilla, feebly widened from base to apex, nearly parallel sided. 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 much longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base arcuate medially, lateral carina wide, extended nearly to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended beyond middle of ventrite ( Fig. 649 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe extremely short, less than ½ length of paramere, wide, apex broadly, deeply emarginate; paramere slightly curved, apical setae long, more than 1/6 length of paramere, distributed over entire length of paramere, parameral margins without serrations ( Fig. 651, 652 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black. Female genitalia with spermathecal capsule long slender, weakly curved medially, apex of cornu rounded, without beak.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: SaoPaulo 142 ParkerNote No 166.50. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 2, 1, same data as holotype except No 666.5 B Montevideo So Amer Paras Lab, Date Jan 14.42, Host bamboo scale, Parker ; 1, No 506.5 Montevideo So amer Paras Lab , Date IX.4, Host Asteroleca M 1977, Parker , Est de Sao Paulo Brazil. ( USNM) .

Remarks. This is another species with a frontally extended clypeus similar to P. alberta , P. inez , and P. amelia . They share approximately the same head and elytral maculation with the Bolivian P. inez . Prodilis monique is distinguished from P. inez by large head punctures, male genitalia with basal lobe extremely short with long parameral setae distributed over length of paramere, a long and slender female spermathecal capsule, apex of cornu not beaked; and Brazilian type locality.

The holotype of P. monique disintegrated during the dissection process. All parts are preserved in a microvial along with male genitalia.

These species share an anteriorly extended clypeus with Neaporia longifrons . That species is placed in Neaporia because the prosternal process does not have lateral carinae, is extremely narrow and differently shaped than the same structure in Prodilis , and apical maxillary palpi differ in form.

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.