Therates apicenigrus Sawada and Wiesner 1999b: 302 Therates apicenigrus Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 81 The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae Wiesner, Jürgen Insecta Mundi 2013 2013-09-12 2013 315 1 86 56CQY Sawada and Wiesner Sawada and Wiesner 1999 [238,785,1123,1147] Insecta Cincidelidae Therates Animalia Coleoptera 40 39 Arthropoda species apicenigrus   ( Fig. 288)      Therates apicenigrus Sawada and Wiesner 1999b: 302, 303, f. 10, 20.    Therates apicenigrus.  Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 81.   Type depository. Holotypemale in JWGC.  Type status.  Holotype male! Type labels: “ LAOSc, Bolikhamsaiprov., BAN NOKenv., alt.  220 m, Route No.8,  9.-14. 5. 1998, N 18°08.7' E104°28.1'GPS, E. Jendek, O. Šaušaleg.” [printed, white, with yellow borders]; “HOLOTYPUS THERATES apicenigrus Sawada and Wiesner” [printed, red].   Diagnosis.Distinguished by the combination of long antennae, elytral apex with no maculae, and absence of a basal dot.   Re-description. Size:Total length (without labrum) 7.0 to 7.4 mm(mean= 7.2 mm, n=2). Female unknown. Head:Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum ( Fig. 292) as weide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders, 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 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 the apical third ( Fig. 289). Apex with rounded lateral corner and sutural tooth, recurved between. Maculation composed of a slender brownish yellow humeral lunule and small yellow central dot which is acutely angled outwards toward the front ( Fig. 290). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus:( Fig. 291) straight, with a knobbed tip and a tiny hook, total length 1.7 mm.   Distribution. Laos( Borikhamxai, Khammouan).   Localities.  LAOS, Khammouan, Ban Khoun Ngeun,  17.v.-6.vi. 2007, 300 m ( JWCG). 3890236410 1998-05-09 1998-05-14 1998-05-09 E. Jendek & O. Sausa Laos 220 18.145 BAN NOK 127 104.46833 40 39 1 1 Bolikhamsai holotype 3890236405 [343,1216,419,444] 2007-05-17 2007-06-06 2007-05-17 JWCG Laos 0 Ban Khoun Ngeun 41 40 1 Khammouan