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 5. Prodilis erika Gordon and Hanley , new species Description. Male holotype . Length 3.0 mm, width 2.2 mm ; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color brown ( Fig. 339 ); apical ½ of head yellow ( Fig. 341 ); pronotum yellow except median 1/3 light brown; antenna, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical 1/5 of terminal maxillary palpomere dark brown; ventral surface black. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than twice diameter; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum separated by less than 3 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by 2–4 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, nearly twice as wide as 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 in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, apical margin truncate, lateral carina slender, short, not extended anterior to coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 3/4 of ventrite ( Fig. 340 ). Apex of ventrite 5 feebly, widely emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, wide, side arcuate, apex slightly emarginate; paramere nearly straight, slender, widest medially, narrowed to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 342. 343 ); siphonal apex slender ( Fig. 344 ). Female. Unknown. Variation . Unknown. Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL : ( BMNH ). 3/46, Fry, Rio Jan ( Rio de Janeiro ), Fry Coll. 1905. 100. Remarks. Prodilis erika is distinguished by having a pronotum paler than elytron and by structure of the male genitalia.