Prodilis geneva 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 : 64

9. Prodilis geneva Gordon and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 1.8 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest behind middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color greenish black ( Fig. 363); head with basal 1/3 reddish yellow, apical 2/3 yellow ( Fig. 365); pronotum reddish yellow; elytra lateral margin reddish brown; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; epipleuron dark reddish brown except extreme outer margin yellow; ventral surface dark reddish brown; abdomen with basal ventrite dark brown, remaining ventrites yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures as large as on head, separated by less than twice a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum near basal and lateral margins, separated by a diameter or less, smaller and sparse on remainder of metasternum; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 smaller than on metasternum, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, slightly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, widened from apex to base. Epipleuron descending externally, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, apical margin slightly arcuate, lateral carina wide, extended just anterior to coxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended 3/4 distance to apical margin of ventrite( Fig. 364). Apex of ventrite 5 truncate. Genitalia with basal lobe longer than paramere, slender, narrowed from base to deeply emarginate apex, apex curved downward; paramere slender, curved, about equal in width from base to abruptly rounded apex, without marginal serrations ( Fig. 366, 367); sipho slender, abruptly bent at apical 1/8 ( Fig. 368).

Female. Similar to male except head entirely reddish yellow, genitalia with spermathecal capsule lost. Variation. Length 1.8 –2.3 mm, width 1.5–1.8 mm.

Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Itatiaia , Rio de Janeiro, 8.III.1962, J. Halik, 14563. ( USNM) . Paratypes; 6, 1, XI–1957, BRAZIL, Guanabara, Corcovado, Alvarenga & Seabra, colls .; 1, Brazil, Minas Gerais, Vicosa , 13 Oct.–1 Nov. 1985, T. J. Henry and S.P. Fiuza F. colls .; 1, Brazil, Sharp Coll. 1905–313.; 1, Brasilien, Nova Teutonia, 27 11'B. 52 98'L, Fritz Plaumann , 18.5.1938 ; 1, S. America, Prob. Rio de Janiero ; 1, Canopy Fog, Fst Edge transec, 210 metres, 2/ 51m, BRAZIL: Manaus, AM ( Amazonas ), INPA/ Smithsonian fst, 2 25'S 59 50W, R.K.Didham. ii.1994, BMNH(E) 2003–84. ( USNM) .