Therates kraatzi Horn, 1900

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 : 24

19. Therates kraatzi Horn

( Fig. 139 )

Therates kraatzi Horn 1900: 195 , 196.

Therates kraatzi . Horn 1910: 194; Horn 1926: 113; Mandl 1972: 110, f. 4d, e; Wiesner 1988: 17, 18, f. 20, 70, 238, 302, 303, 399; Naviaux 1991: 230, f. 33, 34 (= major Probst and Wiesner, 1994 ); Wiesner 1992: 90; Probst and Wiesner 1994b: 101.

Type depository. Holotype male in SDEI.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ Penang ” [handwritten]; “Holotypus” [printed, red]; “ Kraatzi mihi ” [handwritten, light yellow, with black borders] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of elytra with roundish central dot, humeral lunule which is strongly extended onto disk, and the yellow tibiae.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.7 mm- 8.4 mm, (mean=7.6, n=7). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 146 , female Fig. 145 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in male, somewhat shorter in the females, 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 dark. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth, with a transverse furrow 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, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra: Shining brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical half ( Fig. 140 ). Apex with angular (in males) or roundish (in females) lateral corner and a sutural tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a long yellow humeral lunule which is extended on the disk towards the centrel dot, yellow basal dot connected with the lunule at base, roundish central dot, and light yellow apex which reaches the apical humps; occasionally shorter in females ( Figs. 141-143 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, hind femora, tibiae and tarsomeres darker distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 144 ) curved, with pin shaped and produced tip, total length 1.9 mm.

Distribution. Thailand (Nan, Tak, Nakhon Si Thammarat), Malaysia (Penang).

Localities. THAILAND, Nan, Ban Huay Kon env., 27.v.-10.vi.2002 ( OSCC) , Tak, Umphang District, Song Bae Stream , Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary , 18-27.iv. 1988, 300m, evergreen rain forest ( BMNH) , Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao ram, Taisui , 21.iii.1922 ( SDEI) .

Figures

Figures 132-146. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 132-137. dembickyi Sawada and Wiesner, 2002. 132) Habitus, holotype male. 133) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 134-135 Maculae of elytra. 134) Holotype male. 135) Paratype female. 136) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 137-138. Labra. 137) Holotype male. 138) Paratype female. 139-146. kraatzi Horn, 1900. 139) Habitus, female from Malaysia (BMNH). 140) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 141-143. Maculae of elytra. 141) Holotype male. 142) Female from Malaysia (BMNH). 143) Female from Tak (BMNH). 144) Left lateral view of aedeagus, Holotype. 145-146..Labra 145) Female from Malaysia (BMNH). 146) Holotype male.