Akonesis Opitz, new genus
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Akonesis

description: Akonesis Opitz, new genus   
 Type Species. Cregya vittata Spinola, 1844b: 372.   
 Diagnosis. Specimens of this genus superficially resemble those of Diutius. Beetles of these genera share similarities in body form and gross morphology, and in the peculiar coloration of the antenna (Fig. 5), but in Akonesis specimens the tarsal spur formula is 1-2-2, whereas in Diutius specimens the formula is 0-2-2.   
 Description. Size: Length 8.5–11.0 mm; width 3.0–4.0 mm. Form (Figs. 63, 64): Oblong, robust (about 3X longer than broad), body deep. Vestiture: Dorsum profusely vested with pale pubescence, antenna moderately setose, elytra with 1° and 2° setae (Fig. 58) or without 1° but with 2° setae only. Head (Figs. 1–3): Cranium subquadrate, frons narrower or as wide as eye, profusely indented with small, setiferous punctures; gula (Figs. 2, 48) large, subquadrate, sutures diverging anteriorly, gula with 2 well-developed, setose post-gular processes (Fig. 48); labrum shallow, incised distally (Fig. 11), tormal processes contiguous, epipharyngeal plate small; mandible (Fig. 8) stout, anterior dens acuminate, medial and posterior dens well developed, penicillus well developed; maxilla (Fig. 10) with laterolacinia present as indentation, terminal palpomere securiform; labium (Fig. 9) with ligula deeply incised, ligular lobes narrowed, terminal palpomere securiform, capitulum long and slender (Figs. 5, 49, 51); eyes large, coarsely facetted, ocular notch large; antenna comprised of 10 antennomeres, capitate, capitulum long and slender, funicular antennomeres subfiliform. Thorax: Pronotum (Figs. 4, 6, 52) slightly subquadrate, disc flat, side margin with conspicuous tubercle, dorsolateral carina incomplete, anteriorly extended beyond tubercle and confluent with pronotal bead posteriorly, prointercoxal process narrow (Fig. 52), expanded distally, pronotal projections long, approximating prointercoxal process (Fig. 52); elytron with or without asetiferous punctures (Figs. 55, 58), epipleural fold wide and in ventral position, tapered to elytral apex, anterior elytral margin not carinate; metathoracic wing as in Fig. 7, wedge cell closed; metendosternite (Fig. 14) with furcal lamina, furcal anterior plate triangular; profemora not swollen and without spines; tibial spur formula 1-2-2; tarsal pulvillar formula 3-3-3 (Figs. 53, 54, 56, 57), ungues with basal denticle (Fig. 56). Abdomen: Aedeagus (Figs. 12, 13) shorter than length of abdomen, distal region of phallobase lobed, lateral lobes not fimbriate, tegmen short, phallobasic struts confluent with phallobasic apodeme, phallobasic rod absent, phallic plates wide; spicular fork (Fig. 15) well developed, spicular apodemes fused, intraspicular plate long and linear.   
 Distribution. This genus is known from Bolivia and Brazil.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2014, Taxonomy of the New World Checkered Beetle GeneraAkonesisOpitz, New Genus, AntennosusOpitz, New Genus, CrusbatusOpitz, New Genus, andDiutiusOpitz, New Genus (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae), pp. 411-428 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 68 (3) on pages 413-415, DOI: 10.1649/072.068.0313, http://zenodo.org/record/10102963