Prodilis faye 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 : 70

18. Prodilis faye Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.0 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 light reddish brown (Fig. 417); head yellow with base of frons and vertex black, lateral margin of yellow area with bright yellow vitta (Fig. 419); pronotum reddish yellow with apical margin posterior to and laterad of eye narrowly dark brown; scutellum reddish yellow bordered with black; antenna, mouthparts, epipleuron, legs yellow; ventral surface dark brown medially, paler brown laterally; abdomen yellow with basal ventrite and median portion of ventrite 2 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 a diameter or less; prosternal punctures large, separated by less than twice a diameter; mesosternal, metasternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by a diameter or less; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1, 2 slightly smaller than on metasternum, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than an eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, weakly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron slightly descending externally, wide in basal ½, nearly flat, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base slightly arcuate, lateral carina slender, extended just beyond apex of coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to ventrite apex (Fig. 418). Apex of ventrite 5 weakly arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, widest at base, narrowed from base to slightly emarginate apex; paramere weakly curved, slender, narrowed from base to rounded apex, without marginal serrations (Fig. 420, 421); sipho long, slender, bent at about apical 1/6 (Fig. 422).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Sao Paulo, Pau d’Alho Itú , XI–1957, Pereira – Martin. ( MZSP).

Remarks. Prodilis faye is not a distinctive species but may be recognized by dorsal coloration, comparatively long prosternum, and male facial color pattern. Male genitalia are extremely similar to those of P. cora and nearly identical to those of P. ada . See remarks under the latter species.