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
22.
Prodilis kristy
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length
2.4 mm
, width
1.9 mm
; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny. Color blue (Fig. 410); head blue with anterior ½ yellow, base of yellow area tridentate, pubescent; antenna, legs yellow; epipleuron brownish red; mouthparts yellow except apical maxillary palpomere brown; abdomen medially brown with lateral, apical 1/4 yellow. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by les than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal punctures sparse, nearly absent; mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures small, nearly absent except present on lateral, anterior 1/4; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–2 small, nearly absent, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, as wide as 1.4 times eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide, slightly descending externally, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without depressions. Prosternum wider than long, about as long as mesosternum, base weakly arcuate, lateral carina slender, extended to base of procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, angulate, extended to apex of ventrite (Fig, 441). Apex of ventrite 5 with wide, short emargination. Basal lobe of genitalia shorter than paramere, slender, widened from base to emarginate apex, each on each side of emargination widened, round; paramere slender basally, widened from base to rounded apex, without marginal serrations (
Fig. 443, 444
); sipho robust (
Fig. 445
).
Female.
Head blue, not pubescent (
Fig. 442
). Female genitalia with spermathecal capsule long slender, slightly narrowed at middle, cornu apically rounded (
Fig. 446
).
Variation
. None observed.
Type material.
Holotype
male;
BRAZIL
:
Am
, (Amazonas),
Reserve Ducki
,
26km
NE Manaus
,
Hurtado
,
L.C.
G.,
Micropholis guyanensis
15.x1995
,
Tree No.
50a,
Tray NO
. 5, BMNH(E) 2003–84. (
BMNH
)
Paratypes
5, same data as
holotype
except Tree No. 129 Tray No. 10
Eschweilera pseudodecolorans
25.vi.1996
, Tree No. 166 Tray No. 5
Licania micrantha
27.vi.1996
, Tree No. 166 Tray No. 8
Licania micrantha
27.vi.1996
, Tree No. 147 Tray No.
Corythophora alta
22,vi,1996, Tree No. 155, Tray No. 7
Micropholis guyanensis
07.ii.1996
. (
BMNH
).
Remarks.
This species is characterized in males by head maculation and genital structure.