Akonesis atraordinis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 33, 171, 315)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: ARG: Jujuy Prov., Calilegue Nat. Park, 18-28.XII.87, S. & J. Peck, El Cortaderal, km 6, 800 m, forest malaise-FIT (CMNC) . Paratype: 1 specimen. Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Bahia (BMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Akonesis OPITZ was revised in 2018 (OPITZ 2018). This work included a key to species. Akonesis atraordinis specimens key out to A. stricta OPITZ, from which A. atraordinis specimens differ by showing black thin vittae on the elytral disc. In A. stricta the vittae are broad and reddish brown.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 9.0 mm; width 3.7 mm. Form: As in Fig. 315. Color: Yellow, except epicranium and lateral aspects of pterothorax piceous, and each elytron with two narrow black vittae; antenna bicolored, scape piceous, pedicel and funicle piceous, capitulum piceous along posterior margin, yellow in remainder. Head: Antenna (Fig. 33) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 long triangular, antennomere 10 oblong; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye slightly wider than frons (EW/FW 44/40). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 171) slightly oblong (PW/PL 125/133), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with minute asetiferous punctures in basal 1/4 th, punctures diminish in elytral distal 3/4 th (EL/EW 175/60). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Argentina.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, atraordinis, is a Latin compound name that stems from atra (= black) and ordo (= line); with reference to the black lines on the elytral disc.