Axina latilinea 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 : 21

Axina latilinea Opitz , new species

Figures 61, 70, 90.

Type material. Holotype. Female. Type locality: PROV. DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, BORDS DU RIO SAL- ADO, ENV.D’ICAÑO. MISTOL PASO, E. R. WAGNER 1909 ( Argentina). A second label reads: OCTOBER ( MNHN).

Diagnosis. The wide castaneous and flavotestaceous fasciae on the elytral disc, as depicted in Fig. 90, will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

Description. Size. Length 10.5 mm; width 2.7 mm. Form. As in Fig. 90. Color. Cranium, thorax, and legs black; antenna testaceous; elytra bicolorous, each elytron with 3 castaneous and 2 flavotestaceous fasciae, elytral apex flavotestaceous. Head. Cranium coarsely punctate, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/30. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 130/160; elytra, asetiferous punctures concentrated in middle of disc, one striae proximal to sutural margin; EL/EW 420/90. Abdomen. Pygidium scutiform, posterior margin with acumination at middle ( Fig. 61).

Natural history. The holotype was collected in October.

Distribution (For a map see Fig. 70). This species is known from Argentina.

Etymology. The specific epithet, latilinea , is a Latin compound name derived from the prefix lati - (= wide) and linea (= line). I refer to the broad fascia on the elytral disc.