Therates pseudoprobsti 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 : 42

40. Therates pseudoprobsti Probst and Wiesner

( Fig. 306 )

Therates pseudoprobsti Probst and Wiesner 1994b: 95 - 99 , f. 6, 14 - 16.

Therates pseudoprobsti . Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 63, T. 17, f. 15, 16, T. 41, f. 1, T. 58, f. 4; Cassola 2005: 16.

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

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “NW THAI 7-14.V., DOI SUTHEP PUI , 1300-1500m 1992, leg. P. Pacholatko ” [printed, white with yellow borders]; “ THERATES pseudoprobsti PROBST and WIESNER , det. J. Wiesner 1994” [printed, white]; “HOLOTYPUS” [printed, red, with double black borders] . Paratypes! Type labels: “NW THAI 7-14.V., DOI SUTHEP PUI , 1300-1500m 1992, leg. P. Pacholatko ” [printed, white with yellow borders]; “ THERATES pseudoprobsti PROBST and WIESNER , det. J. Wiesner 1994” [printed, white]; “PARATYPUS” [printed, red, with double black borders] ; “THAILANDE, Doi Pui , Chiang Mai prov. 2.V.87 RN” [printed, with black borders]; “ PARATYPUS ” [printed, red]; “ THERATES pseudoprobst PROBST and WIESNER, det. J. Wiesner 1994” [printed] ; “THAILANDE, Doi Inthanon , Chiang Mai prov. 15.V.86 RN” [printed, with black borders]; “ PARATYPUS ” [printed, red]; “ THERATES pseudoprobst PROBST and WIESNER, det. J. Wiesner 1994” [printed] ; “THAI 24-29.IV.1993, DOI SUTHEP , Pacholatko and, and Dembicky leg.” [printed]; “ THERATES pseudoprobsti PROBST and WIESNER , det. J. Wiesner 1994“ [printed]; “ PARATYPUS “ [printed, red, with black borders] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of elongated basal dot and elytral apex which is transparent dark brown or has a narrow brownish suture.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.2 mm- 8.7 mm, (mean= 7.8 mm, n=13). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 312 , female Fig. 313 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in the males, 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, antennomeres 2 to 5 brownish, blackish distally, 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, 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 apical half ( Fig. 307 ), elytral apex transparent brown, suture yellow in variable extension. Apex with rounded lateral corner and tiny sutural tooth, nearly straight between. Maculation composed of a slender brownish yellow humeral lunule, which is somewhat enlarged distally, long brownish yellow basal dot, and large roundish brownish yellow central dot ( Figs. 308-310 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 311 ) stout and straight, with broad knobbed tip, total length 1.9 mm.

Distribution. Thailand (Chiang Mai, Tak, Loei).

Localities. THAILAND, Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep to Doi Pui, 19.-23.iv.1991 ( RNFC) , Doi Suthep, 24.- 29.iv.1993 ( ZSMC) , Doi Pui mt. , 26.iv.-9.v.1996, 1000-1600 m ( ZSMC) , Doi Pui mt. , 2.-6.v.1996, 1600 m ( JMCC) .

Figures

Figures 306-318. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 306-313. pseudoprobsti Probst and Wiesner, 1994. 306) Habitus, male from Chiang Mai (ZSMC). 307) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 308-310. Maculae of elytrae. 308) Holotype male. 309) Male from Chiang Mai (ZSMC). 310) Paratype female. 311) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 312- 313. Labra. 312) Holotype male. 313) Paratype female. 314-318. arunachalcolus Sawada and Wiesner, 2006, holotype male. 314) Habitus. 315) Punctures of elytra. 316) Maculae of elytra. 317) Left lateral view of genitalia. 318) Labrum.