Axina minas 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 : 26

Axina minas Opitz , new species

Figures 29 , 71 , 101 .

Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: Matunsinhos (Minas), Bresil, E. Gounelle, 3.4.1885 ( MNHN) . Paratypes. 5 specimens. Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Cachimbo ,?-?-1890, Ch. Pujo ( WOPC, 1) ; Villa Victoria ,?-?- 1890, Ch. Pujol ( MNHN, 1; WOPC, 1) ; Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, collection date not noted, Fry ( BMNH, 1) ; Estado do Espírito Santo, Linhares ,?- X-1973, Moacir Alvarenga ( MCNZ, 1) .

Diagnosis. In specimens of A. minas , the pterothorax is testaceous or light castaneous, whereas in superficially similar specimens of A. lobispinula it is dark castaneous.

Description. Size. Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 101 . Color. Cranium castaneous; antenna testaceous; thorax and abdomen flavotestaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly testaceous, humeral angle broadly black, disc with two transverse brown fasciae, one narrow fascia at middle, second fascia angular, in front of elytral apex. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons slightly wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 35/15. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 90/120; elytra, asetiferous punctures subseriate, punctures extend slightly beyond elytral ½, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 370/70. Abdomen. Aedeagus ( Fig. 29 ), phallobase with angle near lobes; phallobasic lobes short, slightly separated; edges of phallic plates serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.

Variation. Size. Length 6.5–9.0 mm; width 2.7– 2.2 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.

Natural history. Specimens were collected in Brazil during March and October.

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

Etymology. The specific epithet, minas , 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 29–32. Aedeagi. 29) Axina minas. 30) A. megaspina. 31) A. pallidioccabus. 32) A. pollex.

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