Axina atmis 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 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4564947

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4565045

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A51487B3-C06C-4B0E-FF01-4E99FE77322A

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scientific name

Axina atmis Opitz
status

sp. nov.

Axina atmis Opitz , new species

Figures 15 View Figures 15–20 , 21 View Figures 21–24 , 69 View Figure 69 , 74 View Figures 74–77 .

Type material. Holotype: Male. Type locality: Brazil: Bahia, Encruzilhada ,?- XI-1974, M. Alvarenga ( FSCA).

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

Description. Size. Length 11.0 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form. As in Fig. 74 View Figures 74–77 . Color. Cranium castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, mostly castaneous, pronotum paler at middle and on pronotal arch; mesothorax bicolorous, mesosternum yellow, mesepisternum brown; metathorax and abdomen flavotestaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly brown with lighter streaks of yellow; legs mostly brown, base of femora and tarsi testaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/15. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 paralateral spheroid tumescences, disc narrowly concave near middle; PW/PL 100/130; elytra, asetiferous punctures striate, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral ½, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 450/70. Abdomen. Aedeagus ( Fig. 21 View Figures 21–24 ), phallobasic lobes short, nearly contiguous; phallic plate not serrate; phallobasic apodeme well developed.

Distribution (for map see Fig. 69 View Figure 69 ). This species is known from Brazil.

Etymology. The specific epithet, atmis , is a Greek name with a meaning of “vapor”. I refer to the cloudy appearance of the elytral disc.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Axina

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