Pentilia kendra , Gordon and Gonzalez 2019, new species
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: F, Guillermo González
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Pentilia
Pentilia kendra

description: 6. Pentilia kendra Gordon and González, new species
Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 2.0 mm; dorsal surface with faint microsculpture except head densely alutaceous. Color yellow; pronotum medially brown with lateral 1/4 yellow; elytron brownish yellow with wide, yellow lateral margin, sutural margin narrowly yellow with extremely narrow brown vitta on suture (Fig. 29); venter yellow except pro-, meso-, metasternum black; abdomen brown except lateral 1/4, ventrite 5 yellow. Head punctures not visible in alutaceous sculpture; pronotal punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to twice a diameter, becoming larger, denser toward lateral margin; prosternum with small punctures separated by less than a diameter; mesosternum with punctures coarser than on prosternum, separated by a diameter or less; metasternum with punctures smaller than on mesosternum, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, absent in lateral 1/3; abdominal ventrites 1, 2 with coarse punctures separated by less than to twice a diameter; ventrites 3–4 finely, densely punctured medially; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons parallel sided, 1.2 times as wide as eye, clypeal apex widely emarginate, lateral angle abruptly curved (Fig. 30); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side short, straight, extended from apex of intercoxal process 1/4 distance to apex of prosternum. Epipleuron strongly descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite with median 1/2 curved, extended 3/4 distance to posterior margin of ventrite. Genitalia with basal lobe about as long as paramere, sides gradually narrowed from base to rounded apex; paramere narrow, nearly straight, apex rounded (Fig. 31, 32); penis long, apex broken; basal capsule slender, inner arm short, slightly curved, apically rounded, outer arm as long as inner arm, apex truncate (Fig. 33).
Female. Similar to male except head brown; genitalia with spermathecal capsule slender, ramus slightly widened, cornu curved, apex rounded (Fig. 34).
Variation. Length 2.0 to 2.6 mm, width 1.9 to 2.4 mm. Male pronotum varies from lateral 1/4 to lateral 1/3 yellow, elytron may be almost entirely dirty yellow, but wide yellow margin still evident, suture may be completely, narrowly bordered with brown.
Type material. Holotype male: A. Fry, Sao Paulo (Brazil), Fry coll. 1905.100. (BMNH). Paratypes 15, same data as for holotype. (BMNH).
Remarks. This dorsally pale species is sufficiently distinctive in dorsal color pattern to be easily recog- nized. Male genitalia are not particularly distinctive, as is the case for many Pentilia taxa.
description: Published as part of Gordon, Robert D., F, Guillermo González & Hanley, Guy A., 2019, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XXI: systematic revision of South American Pentilia Mulsant (Cryptognathini), pp. 1-27 in Insecta Mundi 729 (729) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3675043