Therates rihai Moravec and Wiesner, 2001

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 : 40

38. Therates rihai Moravec and Wiesner

( Fig. 293 )

Therates rihai Moravec and Wiesner 2001: 227 , 228, f. 3 - 5, 8.

Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, paratype female in JWGC, paratype female in JMCC, paratype female in ZSMC.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ THAI, NE, Loei prov., Phu Rua N. P. , 1100 m, 17°30’N, 101°21’E, 6-9.iv.1999, M. iha leg. [printed, with yellow borders]; HOLOTYPE Therates rihai MORAVEC and WIESNER , ded. J. Wiesner, 2001 [printed, red] . Paratype females Type labels: THAI, NE, Loei prov., Phu Rua N. P. , 1100 m, 17°30’N, 101°21’E, 6-9.iv.1999, M. iha leg. [printed, with yellow borders]; PARATYPE Therates rihai MORAVEC and WIESNER , ded. J. Wiesner, 2001 [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of yellowish color of the lateral abdomen and flattened distal two antennomeres of male.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.8 mm- 8.2 mm, (mean= 7.7 mm, n=13). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 297 , female Fig. 298 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in females, slightly longer in the males, 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 brownish or darker, two distal segments in males flattened. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates, followed by a few longitudinal striae. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, slightly longer than wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete. Elytra: Shining brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctuated in front, shallower in the apical third ( Fig. 294 ). Apex with roundish lateral corner and a sutural tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a large yellowish humeral lunule extending from the marginal to the middle suture leaving open a blackish dot at the lateral margin of the basal humps, completely connected with a yellowish central dot that is angled outwards toward the front, and a light yellow apex which reaches the apical humps ( Fig. 295 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites in large extension yellowish marginally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres darkened distally apex. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 296 ) curved, produced into angled tip distally, total length 2.0 mm.

Distribution. Thailand (Nan, Loei).

Localities. THAILAND, Nan, Doi Phu Kha N. P. , Headq., 22.-26.iv.1999 ( OSCC) , Nan, Doi Phuka Nat Park , 22.-26.iv.1999 ( OSCC) , Nan, Doi Phuka Nat Park, 28.iv.-12.v.2002 ( OSCC) , Loei, Phu Rua N. P. , 6.-9.iv.1999, 1100 m ( OSCC) .

Figures

Figures 293-305. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 293-298. rihai Moravec and Wiesner, 2001. 293) Habitus, holotype male. 294) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 295) Maculae of elytra, holotype male. 296) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 297-298. Labra. 297) Holotype male. 298) Paratype female. 299-305. chennelli Bates, 1878. 299) Habitus, female from Karen Hills (MNHN). 300) Punctures of elytra, female from Karen Hills (MNHN). 301- 302. Maculae of elytrae. 301) Female from Karen Hills (MNHN). 302) Male from Tenasserim (BMNH). 303) Left lateral view of aedeagus, from Tenasserim (BMNH). 304-305. Labra. 304) Male from Karen Mts. (JWGC). 305) Female from Karen Hills (MNHN).