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
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1
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.5176988
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1942-1354
5176988
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38.
Therates rihai
Moravec and Wiesner
(
Fig. 293
)
Therates rihai
Moravec and Wiesner 2001: 227
, 228, f. 3 - 5, 8.
Type depository.
Holotype
male in
JWGC
,
paratype
female in
JWGC
,
paratype
female in
JMCC
,
paratype
female in
ZSMC
.
Type status.
Holotype
male
!
Type labels:
“
THAI
, NE,
Loei
prov.,
Phu Rua N. P.
,
1100 m
,
17°30’N
,
101°21’E
,
6-9.iv.1999
,
M. iha
leg. [printed, with yellow borders]; HOLOTYPE
Therates rihai MORAVEC and WIESNER
, ded.
J. Wiesner
, 2001 [printed, red]
.
Paratype
females
Type labels:
THAI
, NE,
Loei
prov.,
Phu Rua N. P.
,
1100 m
,
17°30’N
,
101°21’E
,
6-9.iv.1999
,
M. iha
leg. [printed, with yellow borders]; PARATYPE
Therates rihai MORAVEC and WIESNER
, ded.
J. Wiesner
, 2001 [printed, red]
.
Diagnosis.
Distinguished by the combination of yellowish color of the lateral abdomen and flattened distal two antennomeres of male.
Re-description.
Size:
Total length (without labrum) 6.8 mm-
8.2 mm
, (mean=
7.7 mm
, n=13).
Head:
Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male
Fig. 297
, female
Fig. 298
) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in females, slightly longer in the males, 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 brownish or darker, two distal segments in males flattened. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates, followed by a few longitudinal striae.
Thorax
: Pronotum shining greenish black, slightly longer than wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete.
Elytra
: Shining brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctuated in front, shallower in the apical third (
Fig. 294
). Apex with roundish lateral corner and a sutural tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a large yellowish humeral lunule extending from the marginal to the middle suture leaving open a blackish dot at the lateral margin of the basal humps, completely connected with a yellowish central dot that is angled outwards toward the front, and a light yellow apex which reaches the apical humps (
Fig. 295
).
Ventral aspect
: Venter black, ventrites in large extension yellowish marginally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres darkened distally apex.
Aedeagus:
(
Fig. 296
) curved, produced into angled tip distally, total length 2.0 mm.
Distribution.
Thailand
(
Nan
,
Loei
).
Localities.
THAILAND
,
Nan
,
Doi Phu Kha N. P.
, Headq.,
22.-26.iv.1999
(
OSCC
)
,
Nan
,
Doi Phuka Nat Park
,
22.-26.iv.1999
(
OSCC
)
,
Nan
,
Doi Phuka Nat Park
,
28.iv.-12.v.2002
(
OSCC
)
,
Loei
,
Phu Rua N. P.
,
6.-9.iv.1999
,
1100 m
(
OSCC
)
.