Akonesis atraordinis, Opitz, Weston, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 996-997

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809321
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A1879C-D870-FFFC-3CB4-FBDE361EFA08
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Akonesis atraordinis
status	nov.sp.

Treatment

Akonesis atraordinis OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 33 View Figs 28-42 , 171 View Figs 171-178 , 315 View Figs 314-317 )

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 View Figs 314-317 . 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 View Figs 28-42 ) 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 View Figs 171-178 ) 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.