Prodilis sonya 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 sonya

description: 63. Prodilis sonya Gordon and Hanley, new species   
 Description. Male holotype. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.5 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color reddish yellow; head dark yellow except base of frons and vertex dark brown (Fig. 673); pronotum with median 1/3 irregularly brown, lateral margin of brown area sinuate; elytron with apex black, anterior margin of black area diagonal from midpoint of suture to lateral margin posterior to apical declivity (Fig. 671); antenna, epipleuron, prosternum, mesosternum yellow; mouthparts yellow except apical maxillary palpomere with apex dark brown; metasternum brownish yellow; abdomen yellow. 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 as large as on prosternum, separated by a diameter or less; metasternal punctures slightly smaller than on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less anteriorly and laterally, slightly smaller and more widely spaced medially; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by less than twice a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons narrow, not widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, about as wide as eye measured at vertex; eye canthus prominent; 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, same length as mesosternum, base weakly arcuate, lateral carina slender, extended nearly to base of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended to midpoint of ventrite (Fig. 672) Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe short, triangular, wide basally, narrowed from base to emarginate apex, much shorter than paramere; paramere slender, strongly curved in basal ½, apical 1/4 enlarged, apex rounded, without marginal serrations (Fig. 674, 675); sipho lost.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Variation. Unknown.   
 Type material. Holotype male; VENEZUELA: Bolivar, 135km S El Dorado, 20.VII–7.VIII.86, B.Gill FIT 140m. (CMNC).   
 Remarks. Prodilis sonya has a distinctive color pattern. The male genital paramere is also distinguished from those of a similar type by being rather sharply curved, or bent, in basal ½.
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 101, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170031