Therates miyamai Sawada and Wiesner, 2000

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 : 47-48

47. Therates miyamai Sawada and Wiesner

( Fig. 359 )

Therates miyamai Sawada and Wiesner 2000b: 98 - 100 , f. 2, 5, 9, 14, 15.

Therates miyamai . Cassola and Klícha 2002: 39.

Type depository. Holotype male in YYJC , paratypes in JWGC and YYJC.

Type status. Paratypes! Type labels: “N Myanmar, Kachin state, Zan Phut ( Makoutsup Hill ), S Kumon Range, 1200 m, 27. V. 2000, Shinji Nagai leg.” [printed, yellow]; “PARATYPE Therates miyamai SAWADA and WIESNER , ded. J. Wiesner 2000” [printed, red] ; “N Myanmar, Kachin state, S Kumon Range , Zan Phut ( Makoutsup Hill ), 2. VI. 2000, 1200 m, Hiroshi Miyama leg.” [printed, yellow]; “PARATYPE Therates miyamai SAWADA and WIESNER , ded. J. Wiesner 2000” [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of slender transverse central dot, short apical dot, and black venter.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 5.8 mm- 7.3 mm (mean= 6.6 mm, n=20). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 364 , female Fig. 365 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth (five in one male) and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally to elytral shoulders in females, 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, 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, nearly absent in apical half ( Fig. 360 ). Apex with rounded lateral corner and tiny sutural tooth, straight between. Maculation composed of a long brownish yellow humeral lunule, long brownish yellow basal dot, slender horizontal yellow central dot, and a short light yellow apical dot ( Figs. 361, 362 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs of males yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally, legs of females somewhat darker. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 363 ) straight, with knobbed tip, total length 1.6 mm.

Distribution. Myanmar (Kachin).

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.