Axina heveli Opitz, new species Figures 70, 96. Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: PANAMA, Canal Zone, 24-VI-1973, Gary Hevel (USNM). Paratypes. 2 specimens. Panama: Provincia de Panama, 30 km E Cañita, 28-V-1990, at light, F. Hovore (WOPC); Altos, Isla de Majé, 28-IV-1984, H. P. Stockwell (AMNH). Diagnosis. From superficially similar specimens of Axina nigrifrons, A. heveli beetles differ by showing few asetiferous punctures on the elytral disc. Description. Size. Length 13.0 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 96. Color. Cranium bicolorous, frons black, remainder flavotestaceous; antenna testaceous; thorax and abdomen flavotestaceous, except metasternum infuscated; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/3 and apical ¼ black, remainder flavotestaceous; legs bicolorous, prothoracic femora flavotestaceous, apical region of mesothoracic and metathoracic femora black, remainder of femora flavotestaceous; tibiae black; tarsi brown. Head: Cranium finely punctate, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/ FW 60/20. Thorax:Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 150/180; elytra, asetiferous punctures not striate, punctures extend to elytron middle, width of interstitial spaces variable; elytral apex subacuminate; EL/EW 510/100. Abdomen: Aedeagus, phallobase tapered distally; phallobasic lobes very short and nearly contiguous; phallic plates serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated. Natural history. The holotype was collected from Panama during April–June. Distribution (For a map see Fig. 70). This species is known from Panama. Etymology. The specific epithet, heveli, is a patronymic that honors Gary Hevel, among the most knowledgeable Entomologists known to me.

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 page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947