Axina analis Kirby 1818
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina analis

description: Axina analis Kirby, 1818
Figures 1–14, 72, 113.
Axina analis Kirby, 1818: 391. Holotype. Female. Type locality: Brazilia, D. Hancock (BMNH). Corporaal 1950: 97. Ekis 1975: 19.
Diagnosis. In A. analis specimens the distal limits of the metatibia is testaceous, which is not the case in superficially similar specimens of A. pollex, in which the distal limits are dark.
Redescription. Size. Length 13.0 mm; width 3.6 mm. Form. As in Fig. 113. Color. Cranium, legs, and pterothorax castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter and pronotum sides black, pronotum middle disc castaneous; pterothorax black; elytra bicolorous, humeral angle and epipleural margin brown, disc with faintly visible marking at middle and transverse fascia before apex, asetiferous punctures brown; legs brown; abdomen bicolorous, basal visible sternites I–III black, visible sternites IV–VI flavotestaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons slightly wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 60/20 (1–6). Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 130/185; elytra, asetiferous punctures not striate, punctures extend to elytral apical 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 570/155 (7–14). Abdomen. Female pygidium trilobed along distal margin; aedeagus, phallobasic lobes short and narrow, contiguous; phallic plates serrate subapically; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Variation. Size. Length 9.0–14.0 mm; width 2.1–3.4 mm. The brown markings on the elytral disc vary in conspicuousness.
Natural history. Brazil specimens were collected throughout the year, some at 200 m. In Argentina they were captured during February.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 72). In addition to the holotype, I examined 59 specimens from: Bolivia: Depatamento de Santa Cruz, Sara, collection date and collector not noted. Brazil: Estado do Mato Grosso, Corumba,?-V-?, collector not noted; Estado do Minas Gerais, Mar de Hespanha, 9-XII-1910, J. F. Zikán; Serra do Caraça, Santa Barbara,?- I-1970, F. M. Oliveira; Estado do Espírito Santo, Vila de Alegre, 3-XII-1910, J. Zikan; Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, 13-16-XI-1993, A. Bonaldo; Rio de Janeiro, collection date and collector not noted; Tijuca, collection date and collector not noted; Petrópolis, collection date not noted, F. Sahlberg; Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Barracão, Guarda–chuva ent., 8-V-2001, L. Moura & R. Ott; Porto Alegre, I. do Lino, 11-I-2000, I. Heydrich; Triumfo, Copesul, 14-II-2008, R. Moraes; El Dorado do Sul, Fazenda São Jose, 26-I-1999, A. Bonaldo; S. Leopoldo, 24-IV-1987, C. J. Becker; Campo Bom, 14-VII-1987, C. J. Becker; Viamao, 6-I-1977, A. Lise; Viamão, 17-I-1977, A. Lise. Estado do São Paulo, Fazenda Campininas, Mogi Guacu, 1-8-I-1970, J. M. & B. A. Campbell; Rio Claro,?- I-1947, collector not noted; Inst. Florestal, 19-I-1979, E. P. Teixeira; Tabaquara,?-I-?, B. Pohl; Marumby,?- II-1945, collector not noted; Estación Experimental Instituto Flor,?- X-1977, E. P. Teixeira; São Paulo, 5-I-1919; Parque Jabaquara,?- XII-1945, collector not noted; Estado do Paraná, Caviuna,?- II-1944, A. Maller; Estado do Santa Catarina, Imbituba, Praia do Rosa, 10-18-XI-2000, collector not legible; 10 km SW Santo Amaro de Esperatriz, 1-I- 1993, 200 m, beating Mata Atlantica (First growth), J. & E. Beierl; idem,?- XII- 1965, F. Plaumann; idem, 1-V-1954, F. Plaumann; idem, 11-II-1954, F. Plaumann;. idem, 14-I-1941, F. Plaumann; idem, I. de Santa Catarina, 31-XII-1992, beating Mata Atlantica (second growth), J. & E. Beierl. Argentina: Provincia de Salta, Los Laureles, 6-II-1982, H. & A. Howden. Specimens are deposited in: AMNH, BMNH, CASC, CMNH, CNCI, CUIC, FMNH, FSCA, JNRC, MCNZ, MNHN, OXUM, SDEI, USNM, WFBM, and WOPC
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947