Therates sausai Sawada and Wiesner, 1997

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 : 46-47

46. Therates sausai Sawada and Wiesner ( Fig. 351 )

Therates sausai Sawada and Wiesner 1997: 80 , 81, f. 5, 6, 8.

Type depository. Holotype male and 4 paratypes in JWGC.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “NE India, Meghalaya state, West Garo Hills, NOKREK Nat. Park , 9.-17.v.1996 alt. 1100± 150 m, GPS N25”29.6', E90"19.5' (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “ Therates sausai nov. spec. Sawada and Wiesner, det. J. Wiesner 96” [printed]; “HOLOTYPUS” [printed, red, with black borders] ; paratypes! Type labels: “NE India, Meghalaya state, West Garo Hills, NOKREK Nat. Park , 9.-17.v.1996 alt. 1100± 150 m, GPS N25”29.6', E90"19.5' (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “ Therates sausai nov. spec. Sawada and Wiesner, det. J. Wiesner 96” [printed]; “PARATYPUS” [printed, red, with black borders] ; “NE India, Meghalaya state, West Garo Hills, NOKREK Peak , 10.v.1996 alt. 1300± 100 m, GPS N25”27.6', E90"19.3' (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “ Therates sausai nov. spec. Sawada and Wiesner, det. J. Wiesner 96” [printed]; “PARATYPUS” [printed, red, with black borders].

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of brownish ventrites and blackish color of the labrum.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.2 mm- 8.1 mm, (mean= 7.1 mm, n=48). Head: Shining greenish black, frons reddish. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in some specimens, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 357 , female Fig. 358 ) as wide as long, yellowish, darkened at laterally at base, with six apical teeth (seven in one female) and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in female, somewhat 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 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 brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical third ( Fig. 352 ). Apex with roundish lateral corner and a sutural tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a brownish yellow humeral lunule, brownish yellow basal dot, yellow horizontal central dot, and a light yellow apex which reaches the apical humps ( Figs. 353-355 ). The humeral lunule is connected with basal and central dot to a variable degree, the central dot in many individuals is connected to the light yellow apical lunule at middle suture. Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites brownish. Legs yellowish, hind femora, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darker distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 356 ) curved, produced into angled tip distally, total length 1.7 mm.

Distribution. India (Meghalaya).

Localities. INDIA, Meghalaya, 3 km E Tura , 1.-8.v.1999, 500- 1150 m ( JWCG) , 22. IV. 1999 ( JWCG, ZSMC) , 18.iv.1999, 1150 m ( JWCG) , 4.v.1999 ( JWCG) , 6.-12.v.2002 ( OSCC) , Nokrek N.P., 3 km S Daribokgiri , 26.iv.1999, 1400 m ( JWCG) .

Figures

Figures 351-365. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 351-358. sausai Sawada and Wiesner, 1997. 351) Habitus, holotype male. 352) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 353-355. Maculae of elytra. 353) Holotype male. 354) Female from Meghalaya (JWGC).355) Paratype male. 356) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype.357-358. Labra. 357) Holotype male. 358) Female from Meghalaya (JWGC). 359-365. miyamai Sawada and Wiesner, 2000. 359) Habitus, paratype male. 360) Punctures of elytra, paratype male. 361-362. Maculae of elytra. 361) Paratype male. 362) Paratype female. 363) Left lateral view of aedeagus, paratype. 364-365. Labra. 364) Paratype male. 365) Paratype female.