Therates myanmarensis Wiesner, 1999

Wiesner, Jürgen, 2013, The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, Insecta Mundi 2013 (315), pp. 1-86 : 26-27

22. Therates myanmarensis Wiesner

( Fig. 161 )

Therates myanmarensis Wiesner 1999b: 369 , f. 1, 2, 6.

Therates myanmarensis . Cassola and Klícha 2002: 38.

Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, paratypes in JWGC, JMCC, RNFC and ZSMC.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ MYANMAR N (Burma), 50 km E Putao, H- 950 m, env. Nan Thi vill., 11.-16. 05. 1998, leg. S. Murzin and V. Siniaev ” [printed, with yellow borders]; “Holotype THERATES myanmarensis J. WIESNER [printed, red, with black borders] . Paratypes! Type labels: “ MYANMAR N (Burma), 50 km E Putao, H- 950m, env. Nan Thi vill., 11- 16.05.1998, leg. S. Murzin and V. Siniaev “ [printed] ; “ Paratype THERATES myanmarensis J. Wiesner “ [printed, red]; “ MYANMAR N (Burma), 65 km NW Putao, 1250 m, Zi Yar Dam vill., 18.-21. 05. 1998, leg. S. Murzin and V. Siniaev ” [printed, with yellow borders]; “Paratype THERATES myanmarensis J. WIESNER [printed, red, with black borders] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by combination of elytral maculation with slender central dot, and males with the two distal antenomeres extended.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.3 mm- 8.6 mm (mean=8.0 mm, n=12). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 167 , female 168) longer than wide, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae extending posteriorally to elytral shoulders in male, somewhat shorter in 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 brownish, distal two blackish, extended in males. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, as long as wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete. Elytra: Shining black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical half ( Fig. 162 ). Elytral apex with lateral and sutural corner, straight between. Elytral maculation composed of a long brownish yellow humeral lunule, a brownish yellow basal dot of variable extension, and a slender yellow central dot ( Figs. 163-165 ). The yellow coloration of the elytral apex reaches the apical humps. Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites brownish, yellowish at margin. Legs yellowish, hind femora, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darker distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 166 ) curved, produced into slender tip distally, total length 1.8 mm.

Distribution. Myanmar (Kachin).

Figures

Figures 161-176. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 161-168. myanmarensis Wiesner, 1999. 161) Habitus, paratype male. 162) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 163-165. Maculae of elytra. 163) Holotype male. 164) Paratype male. 165) Paratype female. 166) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 167-168. Labra. 167) Paratype male. 168) Paratype female. 169-176. confluens Wiesner, 1988. 169) Habitus, male from Lam Dong (JWGC). 170) Punctures of elytra, male from Lam Dong (JWGC). 171-173. Maculae of elytrae. 171) Male from Lam Dong (JWGC). 172) Holotype female. 173) Female from Lam Dong (JWGC). 174) Left lateral view of aedeagus, from Lam Dong (JWGC). 175-176. Labri. 175) Male from Lam Dong (JWGC). 176) Female from Lam Dong (JWGC).