Axina munda Schenkling, 1900

Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Insecta Mundi 2020 (793), pp. 1-70 : 26-27

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.

Figures

Figure 71. Distribution map for Axina species: A. luzia, A. munda, A. minas, A. pallidioccabus, A. picta, A. pollex, A. polycaula, A. proxima, A. rio, A. villa, A. vista, A. nigrifrons, A. ochra.

Figures 50–55. Aedeagi. 5) Axina basalis. 51) A. lateralis. 52) A. munda. 53) A. phallospina. 54) A. proxima. 55) A. trinalis.

Figures 98–101. Habitus of Axina species. 98) Axina lateralis. 99) A. luzia. 100) A. munda. 101) A. minas.