Therates namthacolus Sawada and Wiesner, 1999
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5188624 |
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32. Therates namthacolus Sawada and Wiesner View in CoL
( Fig. 246 View Figures 239-252 )
Therates namthacolus Sawada and Wiesner 1999a: 31 - 33 View in CoL , f. 1, 2, 9, 13, 14.
Therates namthacolus View in CoL . Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 81.
Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, paratype female in ZSMC.
Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ LAOS north, 13-24.v.1997, 15 km NW Louang Namtha, N21°07.5, E101°21.0, alt 750± 100 m, E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, white, with yellow borders]; “HOLOTYPUS THERATES namthacolus Sawada and Wiesner ” [printed, red] GoogleMaps : Paratype female! Type labels: “ LAOS, Louang Namtha pr., 21°09’N 101°19’E, Namtha Muang Sing , 5-31.v.1997, 900- 1200m, Vit Kuban leg. [printed]; PARATYPUS THERATES namthacolus Sawada and Wiesner [printed, red] GoogleMaps .
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of lanceolate antennae, short humeral lunule, darkened labrum, and the dark elytral apex.
Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 8.0 mm- 9.2 mm, (mean= 8.6 mm, n=6). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 251 View Figures 239-252 , female Fig. 252 View Figures 239-252 ) as wide as long, dark, yellowish in the center, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in males, somewhat shorter in 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 a transverse furrow 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. Elytra: Shining black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical half ( Fig. 247 View Figures 239-252 ), apex sometimes transparent brown. Apex with lateral corner and sutural corner or tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a short brownish yellow humeral lunule which does not, or barely, extend onto the disk, long brownish yellow basal dot, and large angular horizontal yellow central dot ( Figs. 248, 249 View Figures 239-252 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs of males yellowish, hind femora, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darker distally. Legs of females brownish dark, only profemora and base of meso- and metafemora lighter. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 250 View Figures 239-252 ) curved, apex produced into angled tip, total length 2.0 mm.
Distribution. Laos (Louangnamtha, Houaphan, Xiangkhoang).
Localities. Houaphan, Ban Saleui, Phou Pan Mt. , 10.v.-16.vi.2009, 1300 - 1900 m ( OSCC) , Mt. Phu Phane , 1200-1600 m, 31.v.-11.vi.2011 ( OSCC) , Xiengkhoang City, Phongsavan env., iv.2010 ( OSCC) , Xiengkhoang, Ban Tha Chôk to Ban Na Sale , 930-1175 m, 23.-26.v.2010 ( NHMB) .
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Therates namthacolus Sawada and Wiesner
Wiesner, Jürgen 2013 |
Therates namthacolus
Sawada, H. & J. Wiesner 2002: 81 |
Therates namthacolus
Sawada, H. & J. Wiesner 1999: 33 |