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) .

Figures

Figures 351–368. Prodilis spp. 351–356) Prodilis claire 351) Habitus. 352) Basal abdominal ventrites. 353) Frons. 354) Phallobase ventral. 355) Phallobase lateral. 356) Sipho. 357–362) Prodilis volgus 357) Habitus. 358) Basal abdominal ventrites. 359) Frons. 360) Phallobase ventral. 361) Phallobase lateral. 362) Sipho. 363–368) Prodilis geneva 363) Habitus. 364) Basal abdominal ventrites. 365) Frons. 366) Phallobase ventral. 367) Phallobase lateral. 368) Sipho.