Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
Florida State Collection of Arthropods Division of Plant Industry, Entomology Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 1911 SW 34 th Street Gainesville, Florida 32614 - 7100
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Insecta Mundi
2020
2020-09-25
2020
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.4564947
06c4d529-b187-453f-8534-3739700e0328
1942-1354
4564947
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Axina ordinis
Opitz
,
new species
Figures 56
,
72
,
117
.
Type material.
Holotype
. Female. Type locality: Trindade (
Goyaz
)
Ch. Pujol
(
Brazil
) (
MNHN
).
Diagnosis.
This is a slender species. The
holotype
is four times longer than broad. This characteristic will distinguish the
holotype
specimen from specimens of other
Axina
species with a partial black pronotum midline.
Description.
Size
. Length 12.0 mm; width 3.0 mm.
Form
. As in
Fig. 117
.
Color
. Cranium, thorax, and legs castaneous, except, pronotum with narrow black line that extends from mesoscutellum to discal indentation; elytra bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, epipleural margin broadly dark brown, dark brown region projects laterally to occupy elytral base, elytron middle, and elytral preapical region.
Head
. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/10.
Thorax
. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 paralateral spheroid tumescences, disc narrowly concave near middle; PW/PL 110/140; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral 3/4, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 410/90.
Abdomen
. Female pygidium trilobed distally (
Fig. 56
).
Distribution
(for map see
Fig. 72
). This species is known from
Brazil
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet,
ordinis
, is a Latin name with a meaning of “line”. I refer to the narrow black line at the base of the pronotum disc.