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
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1942-1354
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Axina macilenta
Opitz
,
new species
Figures 70
,
85
.
Type material.
Holotype
.
Female. Type locality:
Mineiro Goyaz
,
BRÉSIL
. A second label reads: 202. A third label reads: MUSEUM PARIS,
BRÉSIL
,
GOYAS
: MINEIRO, H. DONCKIER, 1912 (
MNHN
).
Diagnosis.
The atypical narrow body form, as depicted in
Fig. 85
, will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
Description.
Size
. Length 12.0 mm; width
2.2 mm
.
Form
. As in
Fig. 85
.
Color
. Cranium castaneous; antenna testaceous; thorax, legs, and abdomen flavotestaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, each elytron with basal and subapical broad dark brown fascia.
Head
. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/15.
Thorax
. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/ PL 110/140; elytra, few asetiferous punctures concentrated in middle of disc proximal to sutural margin EL/EW 500/80.
Abdomen
. Pygidium scutiform.
Distribution
(for map see
Fig. 70
). This species is known from
Brazil
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet,
macilenta
, is a Latin adjective derived from
macer
(= thin). I refer to the narrow body form of this beetle.