Axina atmis Opitz, new species

Figures 15, 21, 69, 74.

Type material. Holotype: Male. Type locality: Brazil: Bahia, Encruzilhada,?- XI-1974, M. Alvarenga (FSCA).

Diagnosis. This is a slender species. The holotype is four times longer than broad. This characteristic will distinguish the species from other Axina species with a partial black pronotal midline.

Description. Size. Length 11.0 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form. As in Fig. 74. Color. Cranium castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, mostly castaneous, pronotum paler at middle and on pronotal arch; mesothorax bicolorous, mesosternum yellow, mesepisternum brown; metathorax and abdomen flavotestaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly brown with lighter streaks of yellow; legs mostly brown, base of femora and tarsi testaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/15. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 paralateral spheroid tumescences, disc narrowly concave near middle; PW/PL 100/130; elytra, asetiferous punctures striate, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral ½, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 450/70. Abdomen. Aedeagus (Fig. 21), phallobasic lobes short, nearly contiguous; phallic plate not serrate; phallobasic apodeme well developed.

Distribution (for map see Fig. 69). This species is known from Brazil.

Etymology. The specific epithet, atmis, is a Greek name with a meaning of “vapor”. I refer to the cloudy appearance of the elytral disc.