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

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5176988

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5188609

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scientific name

Therates kraatzi Horn
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19. Therates kraatzi Horn View in CoL

( Fig. 139 View Figures 132-146 )

Therates kraatzi Horn 1900: 195 View in CoL , 196.

Therates kraatzi View in CoL . 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 View in CoL ); 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 View Figures 132-146 , female Fig. 145 View Figures 132-146 ) 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 View Figures 132-146 ). 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 View Figures 132-146 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, hind femora, tibiae and tarsomeres darker distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 144 View Figures 132-146 ) 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) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Therates

Loc

Therates kraatzi Horn

Wiesner, Jürgen 2013
2013
Loc

Therates kraatzi

Probst, J. & J. Wiesner 1994: 101
Wiesner, J. 1992: 90
Naviaux, R. 1991: 230
Wiesner, J. 1988: 17
Mandl, K. 1972: 110
Horn, W. 1926: 113
Horn, W. 1910: 194
1910
Loc

Therates kraatzi

Horn, W. 1900: 195
1900
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