Prodilis janie 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 : 99-100

61. Prodilis janie Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.7 mm, width 1.4 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color black; head with apical ½ mostly yellow except anterior margin black, base of yellow area medially emarginated with black ( Fig. 661 ); pronotum entirely black; elytron reddish yellow except apical declivity black, anterior margin of black area rounded, widest at suture ( Fig. 659 ); antenna, epipleuron, legs yellow; mouthparts yellowish brown, maxillary palpomere dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown except lateral 1/4 of basal ventrite yellow. 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 less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum separated by a diameter or less on basal and lateral margins, more widely spaced or absent medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons widened from vertex to clypeus, about as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, slightly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, narrow in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum about as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, base slightly arcuate, lateral carina narrow, extended to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, slightly angulate, extended to middle of ventrite ( Fig. 660 ). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe short, wide, parallel sided in basal 1/3, then narrowed to weakly emarginate apex; paramere slender, slightly sinuate to rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 662, 663 ); sipho short, robust, apical portion lost ( Fig. 664 ).

Female. Similar to male except head black. Female genitalia with spermathecal capsule short, slender, narrowed at middle, apex of cornu narrowly rounded.

Variation. Length 1.4 to 1.7 mm, width 1.3 to 1.4 mm.

Type material. Holotype male; PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: 100m, 5.0 mi. NW Gamboa, 09 o 10'00" N, 079 o 45'00" W, 23–24Oct1975, canopy fogging experiment in Luehea seemannii, Pyrethrin fog, Sample 3X 23 X 1975. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 2, same data as holotype except Sample 1–3, 12 July 1976, Montgomery & Lubin coll. ( USNM) .

Remarks. This species is distinguished by elytral color pattern and male genitalia.

Figures

Figures 659–675. Prodilis spp. 659–664) Prodilis janie 659) Habitus. 660) Basal abdominal ventrites. 661) Frons. 662) Phallobase ventral. 663) Phallobase lateral. 664) Sipho. 665–670) Prodilis maggie 665) Habitus. 666) Basal abdominal ventrites. 667) Frons. 668) Phallobase ventral. 669) Phallobase lateral. 670) Sipho. 671–675) Prodilis sonya 671) Habitus. 672) Basal abdominal ventrite. 673) Frons. 674) Phallobase ventral. 675) Phallobase lateral.