Prodilis melody Gordon and Hanley 2017, new species
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Prodilis
Prodilis melody

description: 43. Prodilis melody Gordon and Hanley, new species   
 Description. Male holotype. Length 2.1 mm, width 1.6 mm; body oval, elongate, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpure. Color black; head yellow except base of frons and vertex black (Fig. 561); pronotum mostly black with narrow lateral margin and broad anterolateral angle yellow; elytron with 2 yellow maculae, anterior macula small, slender, extended from humeral callus posteriorly to apical 1/3 of elytron, posterior macula on apical declivity large, oval (Fig. 559); antenna, legs yellow; epipleuron brownish red; mouthparts yellow except apex of apical maxillary palpomere brown; abdomen yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures slightly larger than 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 about a diameter; mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures basally and laterally as large as on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less, median punctures small, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 small, separated by less than 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons densely pubescent, slightly widened from vertex to clypeus, 1.2 times width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, slender, slightly widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at anterolateral angle, 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 longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base truncate, lateral carina slender, extended anterior to procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, rounded, extended beyond middle of ventrite (Fig. 560). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, parallel sided in basal 3/4, narrowed to abruptly rounded apex in apical 1/4; paramere long, slender, weakly curved, apex rounded, without marginal serrations (Fig. 562, 563); sipho short, robust (Fig. 564).   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Variation. Unknown.   
 Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Chapada, Acc.No. 2966, Oct. (CMNH).   
 Remarks. This species is recognized by elytral color pattern, pronotum widest across anterolateral angles, and distinctive male genitalia.
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 1-158 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (601) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170031