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
31.
Prodilis isabel
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length
1.9 mm
, width
1.4 mm
; body oval, slightly elongate, 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; head with base of frons and vertex brown, remainder of head yellow (
Fig. 493
); pronotum with lateral 1/4 paler brown than disc; elytron brownish yellow bordered with brown (
Fig. 491
); scutellum black; antenna, mouthparts yellow; legs brownish yellow; epipleuron reddish brown; abdomen brownish yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures slightly larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; prosternal punctures large, sparse, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; mesosternal punctures as large as on prosternum, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; metasternal punctures smaller than on mesosternum, separated by less than 3 times 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 widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, weakly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, with feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, angulate, extended 4/5 distance to ventrite apex (
Fig. 492
). Apex of ventrite 5 strongly arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, wide, spoon shaped, widest anterior to middle, lateral margin curved from base to abruptly rounded apex, apex not emarginate; paramere weakly curved, nearly straight, slender, nearly equal in width to rounded apex, without marginal serrations (
Fig. 494, 495
); sipho robust, apex lost (
Fig. 496
).
Female.
Unknown.
Variation
. Unknown.
Type material.
Holotype
male;
COLOMBIA
:
Buga
,
Val
(
Valle del Cauca
), 4.II.41, alt.
1010 m
,
Murillo No
5405. (
USNM
).
Remarks.
Prodilis isabel
has a distinctive, although obscurely defined elytral color pattern that will enable it to be recognized.