The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae Author Wiesner, Jürgen Dresdener Ring 11 D- 38444 Wolfsburg Germany juergen.wiesner@wolfsburg.de text Insecta Mundi 2013 2013-09-12 2013 315 1 86 journal article 124041 10.5281/zenodo.5176988 4a3512b7-e528-47d9-b5b3-032608ef58a6 1942-1354 5176988 006AF978-DB08-476F-8D0E-CBF03871E11E 16. Therates nepalensis Probst and Wiesner ( Fig. 118 ) Therates nepalensis Probst and Wiesner 1994a: 30 - 32 , f. 1 - 4. Therates nepalensis . Probst 1996: 23 ; Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 116 . Type depository. Holotype male in NHMW . Type status. Holotype male ! Type labels : “E-NEPAL, Arun Valley , Mure-Num , 2050 - 1600 m , 10. Juni 1992 , leg. J. and J. Probst ” [printed, with yellow borders]; HOLOTYPUS THERATES nepalensis PROBST and WIESNER ” [printed, red, with black borders] . Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of yellow labrum and elytra with yellow apex, reaching the apical humps. Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.7 mm- 8.2 mm (mean=8.0 mm, n=3). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 123 , female Fig. 124 ) longer than wide, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in the male, somewhat shorter in the female, scape with a single apical bristle, antennomeres 2 to 5 glabrous, antennomeres 6 to 11 finely and evenly pubescent; scape yellowish above, black on underside, all the other antennal segments blackish. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax : Pronotum shining greenish black, barely longer than wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra : Shining greenish or violet black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallow in apical half ( Fig. 119 ). Apex with angular lateral and sutural corner, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a long yellow humeral lunule, yellow basal dot, broad yellow central band, and yellow apex which reaches the apical humps ( Figs. 120, 121 ). Ventral aspect : Venter black. Legs yellowish, apical halves of metatibiae and meso- and metafemura darker, tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 122 ) straight with short rounded tip, total length 1.9 mm . Distribution. Nepal ( Kosi ), India ( Sikkim ). Localities. INDIA , Sikkim , Khecheopari lake, 21.-26.vi.2003 (ZSMC), 15.-22.vi.2006 , 1800 m (ZSMC).