Therates nepalensis Probst and Wiesner, 1994

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 : 22

16. Therates nepalensis Probst and Wiesner

( Fig. 118 )

Therates nepalensis Probst and Wiesner 1994a: 30 - 32 , f. 1 - 4.

Therates nepalensis . Probst 1996: 23; Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 116.

Type depository. Holotype male in NHMW.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “E-NEPAL, Arun Valley, Mure-Num , 2050 - 1600 m, 10. Juni 1992, leg. J. and J. Probst ” [printed, with yellow borders]; HOLOTYPUS THERATES nepalensis PROBST and WIESNER ” [printed, red, with black borders] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of yellow labrum and elytra with yellow apex, reaching the apical humps.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.7 mm- 8.2 mm (mean=8.0 mm, n=3). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 123 , female Fig. 124 ) longer than wide, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in the male, somewhat shorter in the 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 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 greenish or violet black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallow in apical half ( Fig. 119 ). Apex with angular lateral and sutural corner, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a long yellow humeral lunule, yellow basal dot, broad yellow central band, and yellow apex which reaches the apical humps ( Figs. 120, 121 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, apical halves of metatibiae and meso- and metafemura darker, tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 122 ) straight with short rounded tip, total length 1.9 mm.

Distribution. Nepal (Kosi), India (Sikkim).

Localities. INDIA, Sikkim, Khecheopari lake, 21.-26.vi.2003 (ZSMC), 15.-22.vi.2006, 1800 m (ZSMC).

Figures

Figures 118-131. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 118-124. nepalensis Probst and Wiesner, 1994. 118) Habitus, holotype male. 119) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 120-121. Maculae of elytra. 120) Holotype male. 121) Female from Sikkim (ZSMC). 122) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 123-124. Labra. 123) Holotype male. 124) Female from Sikkim (ZSMC). 125-131. gestroi Horn, 1900. 125) Habitus, male from Tuyen Quang (JWGC). 126) Punctures of elytra, male from Tuyen Quang (JWGC). 127-128. Maculae of elytra. 127) Male from Tuyen Quang (JWGC). 128) Female from Tuyen Quang (CMNC). 129) Left lateral view of aedeagus, from Tuyen Quang (JWGC). 130-131. Labra. 130) Male from Tuyen Quang (JWGC). 131) Female from Tuyen Quang (CMNC).