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
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5170031
1942-1354
5170031
A5348E25-CC3E-476B-9AD2-0A6C3A37A61A
65.
Prodilis unipunctata
(Gorham)
Neaporia unipunctata
Gorham 1897: 221
.
Prodilis unipunctata
:
Korschefsky 1931: 110
;
Blackwelder 1945: 444
.
Description. Female
holotype
. Length
1.6 mm
, width
1.3 mm
; body rounded, widest at middle of elytra, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head black (
Fig. 680
); elytron bluish black with large, reddish yellow macula at middle (
Fig. 678
); antenna yellow; mouthparts brownish yellow; mesosternum, legs reddish yellow. Head punctures small, separated by about a diameter; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternum with large, sparse punctures, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum anteriorly and laterally, separated by a diameter or less anteriorly and laterally, slightly smaller and more widely spaced medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, sides nearly parallel, 1.4 times width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, slender, nearly parallel sided. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, narrow, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, slightly longer than mesosternum, base slightly arcuate, lateral carina extended to base of prosternal coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, slightly angulate, extended to midpoint of ventrite (
Fig. 679
). Genitalia with spermathecal capsule elongate, slender, ramus weakly enlarged, apex of cornu rounded (
Fig. 681
).
Male.
Unknown.
Variation
. Unknown.
Type
locality
.
PANAMA
: V. de
Chiriqui
,
25–4000 ft.
Type
depository
. BMNH.
Geographical distribution
.
Type
locality.
Specimens examined
. 1.
Holotype
.
Remarks.
Prodilis unipunctata
is known only from the female
holotype
. It is distinguished by elytron with unique color pattern, a rounded body form, and head with comparatively widely spaced punctures. The
holotype
is labeled “V, de
Chiriqui
,
25–4000 ft.
, Champion./
Neaporia unipunctata
Gorh
(handwritten)/ sp. figured/Type (orange bordered disc)/B.C.A.,Col.,VII.” This specimen is considered to be a
holotype
based on
Gorham’s (1897)
original description.