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 munda Schenkling, 1900 Figures 52 , 71, 100. Axina munda Schenkling, 1900: 391 . Lectotype . Male. Here selected. Type locality: Jatahy, Prov. Goyas (Brasil) (SDEI). Paralectotypes . 2 specimens . Brazil ; Estado do Goiás , Goias , collection date not noted, Donckier (RMNH, 1; SDEI, 1). Corporaal 1950: 98 . There is indication that Schenkling examined more than one specimen in his description of this species, but he did not select a holotype , therefore, I invoke Recommendation 73F of the ICZN (1999) and designate a lectotype for this nominal species. Diagnosis. Distinguishable from superficially similar specimens of Axina vista by the configuration of the dark elytral markings. In A . munda specimens the 2 posterior dark markings are punctiform, whereas in A . vista specimens these markings are transverse. Also, there are considerable differences in their aedeagi (compare Fig. 52 , 39). Redescription. Size . Length 11.0 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form . As in Fig. 100 . Color . Flavotestaceous, except black in distal limit of femur, and proximal limit of tibia, and each elytron with three black spots, one spot at humeral angle, one just behind middle, and one at elytral apical 3/4 .. Head . Cranium finely punctate, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 60/20. Thorax . Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 115/160; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend to slightly beyond elytron middle, interstitial spaces vary in width; EL/EW 480/100. Abdomen . Aedeagus ( Fig. 52 ), phallobasic lobes very long, narrow, approximate; phallus abruptly narrowed, phallic plates copiously serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated. Variation. Size . Length 9.0–11.0 mm; width 2.2–2.5 mm . The black markings on the elytron disc vary in prominence. Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during October & December. Distribution (for map see Fig. 71 ). In addition to the lectotype and paralectotypes , I examined 11 specimens from: Bolivia : Departamento de Santa Cruz , Buena Vista, vicinity Hotel Flora & Fauna, 22-26-X-2002 , Morris & Wappes; Andres Ibenez, Potrerillos del Guenda, 608- XII-2011 , Wappes, Lingafelter, Morris, Woodley. Brazil : Estado do Goías , Jatai, collection date and collector not noted; Trindade, collection date not noted, Ch. Pujol. Ecuador , Provincia de Napo , Yasuni National Forest, no other information available. Specimens are deposited in: ACMT, MNHN, QCAZ, SDEI, and WOPC.