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 lateralis Pic, 1936 Figures 51 , 70, 98. Axina lateralis Pic, 1936: 15 . Holotype . Gender not known. Type locality: Brésil (MNHN). Corporaal 1950: 98 . Diagnosis. In A . lateralis specimens the distal limits of the metatibia are testaceous, these limits are dark in superficially similar specimens of A . villa . Redescription. Size . Length 9.5 mm ; width 2.2 mm . Form . As in Fig. 98 . Color . Cranium dark castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter, lower sides of pronotum, pterothorax, and legs black, pronotal disc castaneous; elytra bicolorous, mostly testaceous, epipleural margin and region in front of apex brown. Head . Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/8. Thorax . Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 95/125; elytra, asetiferous punctures scattered, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 410/60. Abdomen . Aedeagus ( Fig. 51 ), phallobasic lobes short, flattened laterally; phallic plates serrate near phallic apex; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated. Variation. Size . Length 9.5–13.0 mm; width 2.2–3.0 mm. Except for body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous. Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during October, in a transitional forest at 350– 400 m . Others were collected from Brazil from November and December, at altitudes that range from 300– 500 m . Distribution (for map see Fig. 70 ). In addition to the holotype , I examined 33 specimens from: Bolivia : Departamento de Santa Cruz , Potrerillos del Guenda, Snake Farm, 21-24-X-2011 , 350– 400 m , Wappes & Skillman; 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 5-15-X-2001 , tropical transitional forest. M. C. Thomas, & B. K. Dozier; 4-6 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 19-22-X-2004 , Wappes & Morris; idem , 9-19-X-2004 , J. Eger. Brazil : Estado do Mato Grosso ;?-?- 1886, P. Germain; Estado do Bahia , Itapetinga,?- XI-1969 , F. M. Oliveira; Estado do Minas Gerais , Passa Quatrom,?- II-1960 , B. Silva; Estado do Santa Catarina , Nova Teutonia,?- XII-1965 , 300- 500 m , Fritz Plaumann; idem ,?- XI-1965 , 300- 500 m , Fritz Plaumann. Estado do Rio de Janeiro , Guanabara,?- III-1964 , M. Alvarenga; idem ,?- XII-1972 , M. Alvarenga; idem , Represa Rio Grande,?- I-1972 , F. M. Oliveira. Specimens are deposited in: ACMT, AMNH, BMNH, CMNC, CMNH, CNCI, CSCA, CSUC, CUIC, FMNH, FSCA, KSUC, MCNZ, MNHN, OXUM, RFMC, SMTD, WFBM, USNM, WOPC, and ZMHB. Notes. I examined the holotype , but the description is based on a homotype specimen.