Therates ottomerkli Wiesner, 1999

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 : 49

49. Therates ottomerkli Wiesner

( Fig. 374 )

Therates ottomerkli Wiesner 1999a: 321 , 322, f. 1.

Therates ottomerkli . Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 80.

Type depository. Holotype female in HMHN, paratype female in JWGC.

Type status. Holotype female! Type labels: “ LAOS, Champassak Prov., Dong Hua Xao NBCA, bank of Nam Phak river, 15°59’N, 105°55’E,” [printed, white]; “ 280 m, singled and swept from the vegetation, No. 15, 28-29. III. 1998, leg. O.Merkl and G.Csorba ” [printed, white]; “Holotype Therates ottomerkli J. Wiesner ” [printed, red] . Paratype female! Type labels: “ LAOS, Champassak Prov., Dong Hua Xao NBCA, bank of Nam Phak river , 15°59’N, 105°55’E ” [printed, white with yeollow borders]; “ 280 m, singled and swept from the vegetation, No. 15, 28-29.iii.1989, leg. O. Merkl and G. Csorba ” [printed, white]; “Paratype Therates ottomerkli, J.Wiesner ” [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of brownish pronotum and venter, and central dot acutely angled laterally toward the front.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.4 mm- 6.6 mm, (mean= 6.5 mm, n=2). Male unknown. Head: Shining black. Mandibles yellowish, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (female Fig. 377 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders 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 brownish black. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth, with a transverse furrow in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum brownish, as long as 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 black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical half ( Fig. 375 ). Apex transparent brown with angular lateral corner and sutural tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation yellow, composed of a slender humeral lunule, basal dot, and central dot which is acutely angled outwards toward the front ( Fig. 376 ). The area between humeral lunule central dot is brownish. Ventral aspect: Venter brownish. Legs yellowish, tarsomeres darker distally.

Distribution. Laos (Champasak).

Figures

Figures 366-377. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 366-373. dohertyi Horn, 1905. 366) Habitus, holotype female. 367) Punctures of elytra, holotype female. 368-370. Maculae of elytra. 368) Holotype female. 369) Male from Assam (BMNH). 370) Male from Assam (SDEI). 371) Left lateral view of aedeagus, from Assam (BMNH). 372-373. Labra. 372) Male from Assam (BMNH). 373) Holotype female. 374-377. ottomerkli Wiesner, 1999, paratype female. 374) Habitus. 375) Punctures of elytra. 376) Maculae of elytra. 377) Labrum.