Axina macilenta 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 : 18

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4565061

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A51487B3-C072-4B10-FF01-4CFBFE6537CD

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scientific name

Axina macilenta Opitz
status

sp. nov.

Axina macilenta Opitz , new species

Figures 70 View Figure 70 , 85 View Figures 82–85 .

Type material. Holotype. Female. Type locality: Mineiro Goyaz , BRÉSIL. A second label reads: 202. A third label reads: MUSEUM PARIS, BRÉSIL, GOYAS: MINEIRO, H. DONCKIER, 1912 ( MNHN).

Diagnosis. The atypical narrow body form, as depicted in Fig. 85 View Figures 82–85 , will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

Description. Size. Length 12.0 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form. As in Fig. 85 View Figures 82–85 . Color. Cranium castaneous; antenna testaceous; thorax, legs, and abdomen flavotestaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, each elytron with basal and subapical broad dark brown fascia. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/15. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/ PL 110/140; elytra, few asetiferous punctures concentrated in middle of disc proximal to sutural margin EL/EW 500/80. Abdomen. Pygidium scutiform.

Distribution (for map see Fig. 70 View Figure 70 ). This species is known from Brazil.

Etymology. The specific epithet, macilenta , is a Latin adjective derived from macer (= thin). I refer to the narrow body form of this beetle.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Axina

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