Therates phongsalyensis Sawada and Wiesner, 2004

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 : 34

31. Therates phongsalyensis Sawada and Wiesner

( Fig. 239 )

Therates phongsalyensis Sawada and Wiesner 2004: 262 , 263, f. 6 - 10.

Type depository. Holotype male and paratype female in JWGC.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ Laos-N, Phongsaly prov., Phongsaly env., ~ 1500 m, 28.v.-20. vi. 2003, 21°41-2’N 102°06-8’E, Pacholátko and Kuba leg. [printed, yellow]; HOLOTYPE Therates phongsalyi SAWADA and WIESNER, ded. J. Wiesner 2004 [printed, red] . Paratype female Type labels: Laos-N, Phongsaly prov., Phongsaly env., ~ 1500 m, 28.v.-20. vi. 2003, 21°41-2’N 102°06-8’E, Pacholátko and Kuban leg. [printed, yellow]; PARATYPE Therates phongsalyi SAWADA and WIESNER, ded. J. Wiesner 2004 [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of short humeral lunule, absence of an apical dot, and the dark brown lateral margins of the labrum.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.5 mm- 7.5 mm (mean=7.0 mm, n=2). Head: Shining black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in female, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 244 , female Fig. 245 ) barely longer than wide, yellowish, lateral margins dark brown, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally to elytral shoulders in female, somewhat longer in the male, 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 a transverse furrow in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining black, as long as wide, barely more constricted in front than 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 apical half ( Fig. 240 ). Apex with rounded lateral corner and tiny sutural tooth, somewhat recurved between. Maculation composed of a yellow humeral dot integrated in a short brownish humeral lunule, and large yellow roundish, somewhat trapezoid central dot ( Figs. 241, 242 ). Apex is somewhat brownish, the lateral margins yellow. Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs as a whole darker in female, lighter in male. Femora brown, darkened at upper margin, tibiae dark brown, front tibiae lighter, tarsomeres brown, darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 243 ) curved, with stout tip, total length 1.5 mm.

Distribution. Laos (Phongsaly).

Figures

Figures 239-252. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 239-245. phongsalyensis Sawada and Wiesner, 2004. 239) Habitus, holotype male. 240) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 241-242. Maculae of elytrae. 241) Holotype male. 242) Paratype female. 243) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 244-245. Labra. 244) Holotype male. 245) Paratype female. 246-252. namthacolus Sawada and Wiesner, 1999. 246) Habitus, holotype male. 247) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 248-249. Maculae of elytrae. 248) Holotype male. 249) Paratype female. 250) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 251-252. Labra. 251) Holotype male. 252) Paratype female.