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
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2020
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10.5281/zenodo.4564947
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Axina picta
Schenkling, 1907
Figures 71
,
103
.
Axina picta
Schenkling, 1907: 309
.
Lectotype
. Female.
Here selected.
Type locality: Amazon, Bates (Brasil) (BMNH).
Paralectotype
.
1 specimen
.
Brazil
:
Estado do Amazonas
, Amazon, collection date not noted, Bates (SDEI).
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.
The floricolorous marking on the elytron disc (
Fig. 103
) will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
Redescription
.
Size
. Length 12.0 mm; width 3.0 mm.
Form
. As in
Fig. 103
.
Color
. Cranium castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter flavotestaceous; pronotal sides and pronotal arch black, pronotum middle widely testaceous, testaceous area flows into subapical depression; pterothorax light castaneous; elytra bicolorous, X-like testaceous making that extends along sutural margin to elytral anterior margin, remainder of elytra dark brown, except elytral apical ¼ testaceous; legs dark mostly dark brown castaneous, except basal region of femora testaceous; abdomen testaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 65/11.
Thorax
. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 130/170; elytra, asetiferous punctures not striate, punctures extend to elytral apical 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 490/110.
Abdomen
. Pygidium securiform.
Distribution
(for map see
Fig. 71
). This species is known from
Brazil
.