Prodilis lynda 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 lynda

description: 52. Prodilis lynda Gordon and Hanley, new species   
 Description. Male holotype. Length 1.8 mm, width 1.5 mm; body broadly oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest before middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny. Color brown; head yellow except base of frons and vertex black Fig. 610); pronotum black with blue tint; elytron brown with blue tint (Fig. 608); antenna, mouthparts, prosternum, legs yellow; epipleuron brownish yellow; venter reddish brown except yellow prosternum. 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 less than twice a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum, separated by less than a diameter except more widely spaced or absent 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 not widened from vertex to clypeus, lateral margins parallel, 1.4 times width of eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron slightly descending externally, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, with feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum short, about as wide as long, longer than mesosternum, base arcuate medially, lateral carina wide, extended nearly to apex of prosternum. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 long, angulate, extended 3/4 distance to apex of ventrite (Fig. 609). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with basal lobe as long as paramere, narrow, sides parallel in basal 3/4, narrowed to acute apex in apical 1/4; apex not emarginate; paramere slender, weakly curved, narrowed from base to rounded apex, without marginal serrations (Fig. 611, 612); sipho rather short, robust (Fig. 613).   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Variation. Unknown.   
 Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Am. (Amazonas), Reserva Ducke, 26km NE Manaus, Hurtado, J.C.G., Pouteria glomerata, 22.vi.1996, Tree No 69 Tray No. 5, BMNH(E) 2003–84. (BMNH).   
 Remarks. Not easily distinguished from other non maculate species, P. lynda has a blue tinted dorsal surface, a short meso– and metasterna, and externally descending epipleuron with faint depressions for reception of femoral apices. These characters along with male genitalia will aid in identification.
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 pages 93-94, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170031