Therates ingridae Sawada and Wiesner, 2006

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 : 43-44

42. Therates ingridae Sawada and Wiesner

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Therates ingridae Sawada and Wiesner 2006a: 130 , 131, f. 3, 12 - 17.

Type depository. Holotype male in JWCG, paratypes in JWCG.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “NE INDIA, Meghalaya, SW of Cherrapunjee, 25° 13'-14’N, 91°40’E, 29. 4.-22. 5. 2005, 500- 950 m, L. Dembický and P. Pacholátko ” [printed, yellow]; “HOLOTYPE Therates ingridae SAWADA and WIESNER , det. J. Wiesner 2005” [printed, red] . Paratypes! Type labels: “NE INDIA, Meghalaya, SW of Cherrapunjee, 25° 13'-14’N, 91°40’E, 29. 4.-22. 5. 2005, 500- 950 m, L. Dembický and P. Pacholátko ” [printed, yellow]; “PARATYPE Therates ingridae SAWADA and WIESNER , det. J. Wiesner 2005” [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by combination of laterally darkened labrum, transparent brownish elytral apex, long antennae, and ventrites which are brownish marginally.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 4.8 mm- 6.7 mm (mean=6.0 mm, n=14). Head: Shining black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 325 , female Fig. 326 ) as long as wide, yellowish, darkened at lateral base, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in females, somewhat longer in 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 brownish black, segments two to four darkened distally. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth. Thorax: Pronotum shining black, barely longer than wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with some transverse short branches. Elytra: Shining black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical half ( Fig. 320 ). Apex somewhat transparent brownish, rounded, with a tiny sutural tooth. Maculation yellow, composed of humeral lunule of different shape (sometimes complete and long, sometimes shorter and small, sometimes interrupted into two parts), smaller or larger basal dot, and a central dot acutely angled outwards toward the front ( Figs. 321-323 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites brownish marginally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 324 ) curved, produced into a stout tip distally, total length 1.3 mm.

Distribution. India (Meghalaya).

Figures

Figures 319-334. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 319-326. ingridae Sawada and Wiesner, 2006. 319) Habitus, holotype male. 320) Punctures of elytra, paratype male. 321-323. Maculae of elytra. 321), 322) Paratype male. 323) Paratype female. 324) Left lateral view of aedeagus, paratype. 325-326. Labra. 325) Paratype male. 326) Paratype female. 327-334. nigromarginalis Probst and Wiesner, 1994. 327) Habitus, female from Mae Hong Son (ZSMC). 328) Punctures of elytra, female from Mae Hong Son (ZSMC). 329-331. Maculae of elytra. 329), 330) Female from Mae Hong Son (ZSMC). 331) Male from Karen (MSNG). 332) Left lateral view of aedeagus, from Karen (MSNG). 333-334. Labra. 333) Male from Karen (MSNG). 334) Female from Mae Hong Son (ZSMC).