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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10.5281/zenodo.4564947
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Axina latilinea
Opitz
,
new species
Figures 61
,
70
,
90
.
Type material.
Holotype
. Female. Type locality: PROV. DE
SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO
, BORDS DU RIO SAL-
ADO
, ENV.D’ICAÑO.
MISTOL PASO
, E. R. WAGNER 1909 (
Argentina
). A second label reads: OCTOBER (
MNHN
).
Diagnosis.
The wide castaneous and flavotestaceous fasciae on the elytral disc, as depicted in
Fig. 90
, will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
Description.
Size
. Length
10.5 mm
; width
2.7 mm
.
Form
. As in
Fig. 90
.
Color
. Cranium, thorax, and legs black; antenna testaceous; elytra bicolorous, each elytron with 3 castaneous and 2 flavotestaceous fasciae, elytral apex flavotestaceous.
Head
. Cranium coarsely punctate, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/30.
Thorax
. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 130/160; elytra, asetiferous punctures concentrated in middle of disc, one striae proximal to sutural margin; EL/EW 420/90.
Abdomen
. Pygidium scutiform, posterior margin with acumination at middle (
Fig. 61
).
Natural history.
The
holotype
was collected in October.
Distribution
(For a map see
Fig. 70
). This species is known from
Argentina
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet,
latilinea
, is a Latin compound name derived from the prefix
lati
- (= wide) and
linea
(= line). I refer to the broad fascia on the elytral disc.