Revision of the Therates fruhstorferi complex (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) Author Matalin, Andrey V. 0000-0002-7790-8709 Moscow State Pedagogical University, Department of Zoology & Ecology, Kibalchicha str. 6, build. 3, Moscow 129164, Russia. andrei-matalin @ yandex. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7790 - 8709 & Pirogov National Research Medical University, Department of Biology, Ostrovitianova str. 1, Moscow 117997, Russia. andrei-matalin@yandex.ru Author Wiesner, Jürgen Dresdener Ring 11, D- 38444 Wolfsburg, Germany. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-03-22 5256 5 401 433 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5256.5.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.5.1 1175-5326 7758872 E5B9708E-D626-4923-825A-A9FD59AE4024 Therates ziyardamensis Matalin et Wiesner , sp. n. Figs 12 , 35 , 64 , 96 , 131 . Therates fruhstorferi vitalisi W. Horn, 1913 — Wiesner 1999: 372 ; Cassola & Klícha 2002: 39 . Type material. HOLOTYPE , Ô— MYANMAR N (Burma), 65 km NW Putao , 1250 m , Zi Yar Dam vill., 18– 21.05.1998 , leg. S. Murzin & V . Sinyaev ( JW ). Diagnosis. This new species is reliably distinguished from T. vitalisi , T. biserratus , T. hunanensis sp. n. , T. sauteri and T. motoensis by apex of aedeagus without lateral carinae ( Fig. 131 vs. Figs 152–174 ). From T. fruhstorferi and T. pseudovitalisi sp. n. this new species is recognized by thin apex of aedeagus ( Fig. 131 vs. Figs 115–130 and Figs 132–135 , respectively) as well as by the rough punctuation of the elytra ( Figs 12 , 96 vs. Figs 1, 3–11 , 81–95 ). Description. TL = 10.6 mm . Head black with distinct violet reflection; orbital plates finely but distinctly striated in posterior third; frons semi-circular, with distinct impression and transverse rugoses (see above), slightly downward anteriorly (see at side), frontal sulci very deep, distinctly convergent in anterior half and shallow and sharply divergent posteriorly; occiput flat with shallow impression anteriorly. Mandibles dark brown underside, yellow-pale topside, with brown teeth and apical molar. Labial palpi pale with dark-brown apical palpomeres; maxillary palpomeres 1 and 2 light brown, palpomeres 3 and 4 dark brown. Antennae not extend shoulders, black, antennomeres 1–5 with light violet tinge and brown apices, antennomeres 9–11 club-shaped, antennomeres 9 and 10 serrated, with downward anterior lower margins, antennomere 11 clearly dilated with abrupt apical margin ( Fig. 35 ). Labrum as wide as long (LL = LW— 1.4 mm ), black-brown with large elongate apical yellow spot unseparated from central apical teeth ( Fig. 64 ). Pronotum shining black with blue-violet reflection; as wide as long (PL = PW— 1.9 mm ), apical lobe slightly wider in medial part; thorax black with distinct blue reflection. Fore femora pale along anterior margin and black with violet tinge along posterior margin; middle femora pale in basal half and black with violet tinge in apical half; hind femora pale in basal third and black with violet tinge in apical 2/3; tibiae black with distinct violet lustre; tarsi black with light violet tinge except brown apices of all apical tarsomeres; HTbL/HTaL = 1.22. Elytra black-blue with bright purple-violet reflection; indistinctly divergent in apical third, EL/EW = 1.94 (EL = 6.6 mm , EW = 3.4 mm ); punctuation deep and regular in basal 3/4 except humeral area, in apical quarter shallow and tenuous; scutellum black with violet tinge, apical margin rounded but shortly top-cut. Elytral pattern presented by small pale basal portion of humeral lunule (see in front) and relatively short practically transverse central dot indistinctly dilated in lateral portion ( Figs 12 , 96 ). Aedeagus (only apical half) with thin elongate slightly sinuate rounded apex, without lateral carinae ( Fig. 131 ). Female unknown. Etymology. This new species is named after the type locality—Zi Yar Dam village. Distribution. MYANMAR : Kachin State ( Fig. 184 ).