Axina ordinis 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 : 36

Axina ordinis Opitz , new species

Figures 56 , 72 , 117 .

Type material. Holotype. Female. Type locality: Trindade ( Goyaz ) Ch. Pujol ( Brazil) ( MNHN).

Diagnosis. This is a slender species. The holotype is four times longer than broad. This characteristic will distinguish the holotype specimen from specimens of other Axina species with a partial black pronotum midline.

Description. Size. Length 12.0 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 117 . Color. Cranium, thorax, and legs castaneous, except, pronotum with narrow black line that extends from mesoscutellum to discal indentation; elytra bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, epipleural margin broadly dark brown, dark brown region projects laterally to occupy elytral base, elytron middle, and elytral preapical region. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/10. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 paralateral spheroid tumescences, disc narrowly concave near middle; PW/PL 110/140; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral 3/4, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 410/90. Abdomen. Female pygidium trilobed distally ( Fig. 56 ).

Distribution (for map see Fig. 72 ). This species is known from Brazil.

Etymology. The specific epithet, ordinis , is a Latin name with a meaning of “line”. I refer to the narrow black line at the base of the pronotum disc.

Figures

Figure 72. Distribution map for Axina species: A. analis, A. conspicua, A. equestris, A. ingnota, A. ordinis, A. trinalis, A. fortipes, A. furcula, A. megaspina, A. sexmaculata.

Figures 56–57. Female genitalia. 56) Axina ordinis. 57) A. basalis.

Figures 114–117. Habitus of Axina species. 114) Axina conspicua. 115) A. equestris. 116) A. ignota. 117) A. ordinis.