Therates jendeki 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 : 37-38

35. Therates jendeki Sawada and Wiesner

( Fig. 260 )

Therates jendeki Sawada and Wiesner 1997: 79 , f. 1, 2, 3, 7.

Therates jendeki . Sawada and Wiesner 2006a: 131.

Type depository. Holotype male in JWCG. Paratypes in JWCG, SDEI and ZSMC.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “NE India, Meghalaya state, West Garo Hills, NOKREK Nat. Park , 9.-17.v.1996 alt. 1100 ± 150m, GPS N25°29.6', E90°19.5' (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “ Therates jendeki 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 ± 150m, GPS N25°29.6', E90°19.5' (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “ Therates jendeki 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 ± 100m, GPS N25°27.6', E90°19.3' (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “ Therates jendeki nov. spec. Sawada and Wiesner, det. J. Wiesner 96” [printed] ; “ PARATYPUS ” [printed, red, with black borders]; “NE India, Meghalaya state, West Garo Hills, TURA , 5.-7.v.1996 alt. 700 ± 100m, GPS N25°30.7', E90°13.9' (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “ Therates jendeki nov. spec. Sawada and Wiesner, det. J. Wiesner 96” [printed] ; “ PARATYPUS ” [printed, red, with black borders]; “S. Kemp,, Zool. Surv. Ind., Above Tura , Garo hills , Assam, 3500-3900 ft., VII.17” [printed]; “PARATYPUS” [printed, red, with black borders]; “ Therates jendeki nov. spec. Sawada and Wiesner, det. J. Wiesner 96” [printed] ; “I-Assam 18-25.5., Haflong hills , St.Jakl lgt. 1991” [printed]; “ Therates jendeki Sawada and Wiesner nov.spec., det. J.Wiesner 96” [printed]; “ PARATYPUS ” [printed, red, with black borders].

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of blackish outer margin of the labrum, broad humeral lunule, and elytral apex which is transparent dark brown or restricted to a narrow brownish suture.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.7 mm- 9.1 mm, (mean= 7.6 mm, n=161). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 267 , female Fig. 268 ) as wide as long, yellowish, outer margin of labrum blackish from lateral tooth up to base, 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, 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, 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, shallow to absent in apical half ( Fig. 261 ), elytral apex sometimes transparent brown. 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, a short brownish yellow basal dot, and a right angled brownish yellow central dot ( Figs. 262-265 ). Apex has a brownish suture sometimes. Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites brownish at lateral margin. Legs of males yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally, femora darkened in distal half. Meso- and metafemora, mesotibia and mesotarsi of females dark brownish, metatibia bicolored, dark at basal third, remainder light yellow, metatarsi light yellow. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 266 ) slender and curved, with produced knobbed tip, total length 2.1 mm.

Distribution. India (Meghalaya, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh).

Localities. INDIA, Arunachal, 8 km S Jamiri , Sessa vic., 26.v.-4.vi. 2005, 350 ± 50 m ( JWCG) , Meghalaya, 3 km E of Tura , 15.-22.iv.1999, 500- 1150 m ( JWCG, OSCC) , 18.iv.1999, 1150 m ( JWCG, JMCC) , 4.v.1999 ( JWCG) , 1.-8.v.1999 ( JWCG) , 6.-12.v.2002 ( JMCC) , Nokrek N. P., 3 km S Daribokgiri , 26.iv.1999, 1400 m ( JWCG) , SW of Cherrapunjee , 29.iv.-22.v.2005, 500- 950 m ( JWCG) .

Figures

Figures 253-268. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 253-259. sigridgeissleri new species. 253) Habitus, holotype male. 254) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 255-256. Maculae of elytra. 255) Holotype male. 256) Paratype female. 257) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 258-259. Labra. 258) Holotype male. 259) Paratype female. 260-268. jendeki Sawada and Wiesner, 1997. 260) Habitus, holotype male. 261) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 262-265. Maculae of elytrae. 262) Holotype male. 263) Female from Meghalaya (JWGC). 264) Male from Meghalaya (JWGC). 265) Female from Meghalaya (JWGC). 266) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 267-268. Labri. 267) Holotype male. 268) Female from Meghalaya (JWGC).