Prodilis araguaensis 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 : 106

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5170031

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6485218

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scientific name

Prodilis araguaensis Gordon and Hanley
status

sp. nov.

70. Prodilis araguaensis Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 2.0 mm; body nearly orbicular ( Fig. 696 View Figures 696–706 ), elytron with side strongly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head with yellow macula next to eye posterior to clypeus, macula widest behind clypeus tapered to rounded apex a middle of eye ( Fig. 697 View Figures 696–706 ); antenna, mouthparts dark brown with trace of yellow; lateral 1/4 of abdominal ventrites and apical 1/3 of ventrite 5 dark reddish brown.. Head punctures small, separated by less than 1.5 times a diameter; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 2 to 4 times a diameter; prosternal punctures coarse, separated by less than a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures larger than on metasternum, evenly spaced by less than a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1– 3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons not densely pubescent, strongly widened from vertex to clypeus, eye 1.4 times wider than frons measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, deeply excavated for reception of head, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex; hypomeron deeply excavated. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, with wide, feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base arcuate, lateral carina robust, extended anterior to procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, arcuate, extended to middle of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe short, about ½ as long as paramere, narrowed from base to weakly emarginate apex; paramere slender, straight, apex rounded, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 698, 699 View Figures 696–706 ); sipho robust, apical 1/8 filamentous ( Fig. 700 View Figures 696–706 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Length 2.3 to 2.4 mm. Male paratype with slight violet tint to black surface.

Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Aragua, Rancho Grande , 9 May 1973, 110m. Ginter Ekis. ( CMNH) . Paratype; 1, VENEZ: Aragua, Colonia Tovar, 5.VII.13.VII.86, B. Gill 2000 m, Flight intercept. ( USNM) .

Remarks. This mostly black, immaculate species is characterized by male head with 2 yellow maculae, nearly all dark antenna and mouthparts, and form of the male genitalia.

CMNH

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Prodilis

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