Axina villa Opitz, 2020

Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Insecta Mundi 2020 (793), pp. 1-70 : 30-31

Axina villa Opitz , new species

Figures 38 , 71 , 109 .

Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: de Villa Victoria, Ch. Pujol 1890 ( Brazil) ( MNHN). Diagnosis. Specimens of this species superficially resemble the members of A. polycaula , from which they differ by showing the epipleural margin that is testaceous; this margin is black in specimens of A. polycaula .

Description. Size. Length 9.0 mm; width 3.2 mm. Form. As in Fig. 109 . Color. Cranium bicolorous, frons and epicranium castaneous, remainder black; antenna testaceous; thorax black, except center of pronotal disc widely castaneous, pronotum with narrow black line that extends from mesoscutellum to discal indentation; elytra bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, epipleural margin widely dark brown, brown marking extends mesally at middle of elytral disc and just in front of elytral apex where brown marking is contiguous with sutural margin; legs mostly black, tarsi testaceous; abdomen bicolorous, visible basal 3 sternites brown, apical 3 sternites yellow. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 60/20. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 paralateral spheroid tumescences, disc narrowly concave near middle; PW/PL 130/170; elytra, asetiferous punctures scattered, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 580/115. Abdomen. Aedeagus ( Fig. 38 ), phallobasic lobes short, contiguous, phallic plates serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated

Distribution (for map see Fig. 71 ). This species is known from Brazil.

Etymology. The specific epithet, villa , is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

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 37–39. Aedeagi. 37) Axina schenklingi. 38) A. villa. 39) A. vista.

Figures 106–109. Habitus of Axina species. 106) Axina polycaula. 107) A. proxima. 108) A.rio. 109) A. villa.