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 text Insecta Mundi 2020 2020-09-25 2020 793 1 70 journal article 7872 10.5281/zenodo.4564947 06c4d529-b187-453f-8534-3739700e0328 1942-1354 4564947 0B89F97A-AAA5-4CE2-9DA2-CC47EA03346D 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.