Therates annandalei Horn, 1908

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 : 21-22

15. Therates annandalei Horn

( Fig. 111 )

Therates gestroi annandalei Horn 1908b: 412 .

Therates gestroi annandalei . Horn 1910: 194; Fowler 1912: 299; Heynes-Wood and Dover 1928: 43.

Therates kraatzi annandalei . Horn 1926: 113 c.

Therates annandalei . Wiesner 1988: 16, 17, f. 18, 66, 235, 300, 397; Wiesner 1992: 90; Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 115.

Type depository. Lectotype male and one syntype male in SDEI.

Type status. Lectotype male! (here designated) Type labels: “N. A., Kurseong, 5000 Feet, E. Himalayas , 5-VII-08” [printed]; “SYNTYPUS” [printed, red]; “Annandalei mihi” [handwritten, light yellow, with black borders]; “LECTOTYPE THERATES annandalei W. HORN, 1908 , ded J. Wiesner 2013” [printed, red] . Syntype! Type labels: “N. A., Kurseong, 5000 Feet, E. Himalayas , 5-VII-08” [printed]; “SYNTYPUS” [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the elytral maculation with the humeral lunule which is strongly extended on disk and yellow apex which covers the apical humps.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.2 mm- 8.2 mm (mean= 7.8 mm, n=4). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 114 , female Fig. 115 ) barely longer than wide, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally far behind elytral shoulders in males, somewhat shorter in 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 blackish. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, barely longer than 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 black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical third ( Fig. 112 ). Apex with angular lateral corner and tiny sutural tooth, barely straight between. Maculation composed of a long brownish yellow humeral lunule, a brownish yellow basal dot, a small yellow central dot, and a light yellow apex which covers the apical humps ( Figs. 113-115 ). The humeral lunule is connected with the basal dot at the base. Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites brownish marginally. Legs brownish yellow, metatibiae brownish yellow at base only, remainder and metatarsi light yellow. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 110 ) curved, tip elongated and bent, total length 1.5 mm.

Distribution. India (West Bengal).

Localities. INDIA, West Bengal, Darjiling, Kurseong , 1400-1500 m, 22.vi.1910 ( BMNH) , Kurseong, Baow River , 8.-12.v.1987, 1100 m ( ZSMC) .

Figures

Figures 106-117. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 106-109. major Probst and Wiesner, 1994, holotype female. 106) Habitus. 107) Punctures of elytra. 108) Maculae of elytra. 109) Labrum. 110-117. annandalei Horn, 1908. 110) Left lateral view of aedeagus, lectotype. 111) Habitus, female from West Bengal (ZSMC). 112) Punctures of elytra, lectotype male. 113-115. Maculae of elytra. 113) Lectotype male. 114) Female from West Bengal (ZSMC). 115) Female from West Bengal (BMNH). 116-117. Labri. 116) Lectotype male. 117) Female from West Bengal (BMNH).