Prodilis cora Gordon and Hanley, 2017

Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2017, 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), Insecta Mundi 2017 (601), pp. 1-158 : 69-70

17. Prodilis cora Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.4 mm, width 1.7 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny without trace of microsculpture. Color black (Fig. 412); head yellow except vertex and base of frons black (Fig. 414); pronotum with reflexed lateral margin and anterolateral angle yellow; scutellum reddish yellow; elytra with lateral margin reddish brown; antenna, legs yellow; mouthparts yellow except apex of terminal maxillary palpomere brown; epipleuron yellowish brown; ventral surface dark brown; abdomen yellow except basal ventrite yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal punctures large, sparse, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter; mesosternal, metasternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, securiform, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron nearly flat, slightly descending externally, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum as wide as long, slightly longer than mesosternum, base weakly arcuate, lateral carina slender, long, extended to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, slightly angulate, extended 2/3 distance to ventrite apex (Fig. 413). Apex of ventrite 5 very slightly arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, widest at base, narrowed from base to slightly emarginate apex; paramere weakly curved, slen- der, narrowed from base to narrow, rounded apex, without marginal serrations (Fig. 415, 416); sipho lost.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: S. P. Paulo, est. S. Paulo, Saude , 4.X.1914, J. Melzer Brasilien ( USNM) . Paratype; 1, Alto da Serra , Sao Paulo, Brazil, G. E. Bryant. 28–II–1911, G. Bryan Coll. 1919– 147 ( BMNH) .

Remarks. Prodilis cora is not a particularly distinctive species but the male head pattern, the entirely black elytron, and sparsely punctured prosternum with lateral carina extended to base of prosternum aid in identification.