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)
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Author
Hanley, Guy A.
text
Insecta Mundi
2017
2017-12-29
2017
601
1
158
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5170031
1942-1354
5170031
A5348E25-CC3E-476B-9AD2-0A6C3A37A61A
40.
Prodilis jan
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length 2.0 mm, width
1.5 mm
; body oval, elytron with side slightly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color black (
Fig. 541
); head pale yellow except base of frons and vertex black (
Fig. 543
); antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; abdomen dark brown to black. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures basally and laterally as large as on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less, median and posteromedian punctures small, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; 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 not widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, 1.4 times 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 flat, narrow in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base truncate, lateral carina wide, slightly sinuate, extended nearly to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 3/4 distance to apex of ventrite (
Fig. 542
). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with phallobase long, slender, basal lobe slightly longer than paramere, sides nearly parallel but weakly widened at apical 1/3, apex acute, not emarginate; paramere slender, weakly curved, apex rounded, without marginal serrations (
Fig. 544, 545
); sipho long, slender, apical 1/4 filamentous (
Fig. 546
).
Female.
Unknown.
Variation
. Unknown.
Type material.
Holotype
male;
PERU
:
Satipo
,
IX–X.1942
, Papyrzycki. (
USNM
).
Remarks.
This species is not outwardly distinct, but has unique male genitalia by which it may be recognized.