Axina picta Schenkling, 1907

Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Insecta Mundi 2020 (793), pp. 1-70 : 27-28

Axina picta Schenkling, 1907

Figures 71 , 103 .

Axina picta Schenkling, 1907: 309 . Lectotype. Female. Here selected. Type locality: Amazon, Bates (Brasil) (BMNH). Paralectotype. 1 specimen. Brazil: Estado do Amazonas, Amazon, collection date not noted, Bates (SDEI). Corporaal 1950: 98. There is indication that Schenkling examined more than one specimen in his description of this species, but

he did not select a holotype, therefore, I invoke Recommendation 73F of the ICZN (1999) and designate a lectotype for this nominal species.

Diagnosis. The floricolorous marking on the elytron disc ( Fig. 103 ) will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

Redescription. Size. Length 12.0 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 103 . Color. Cranium castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter flavotestaceous; pronotal sides and pronotal arch black, pronotum middle widely testaceous, testaceous area flows into subapical depression; pterothorax light castaneous; elytra bicolorous, X-like testaceous making that extends along sutural margin to elytral anterior margin, remainder of elytra dark brown, except elytral apical ¼ testaceous; legs dark mostly dark brown castaneous, except basal region of femora testaceous; abdomen testaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 65/11. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 130/170; elytra, asetiferous punctures not striate, punctures extend to elytral apical 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 490/110. Abdomen. Pygidium securiform.

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

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 102–105. Habitus of Axina species. 102) Axina pallidioccabus. 103) A. picta. 104) A. piperata. 105) A. pollex.