Therates pseudoconfluens Sawada and 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 : 28-29

25. Therates pseudoconfluens Sawada and Wiesner

( Fig. 184 )

Therates pseudoconfluens Sawada and Wiesner 1999a: 32 - 34 , f. 7, 8, 12.

Therates pseudoconfluens . Matalin 2001: 387, 388, f. 1 - 5; Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 80; Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 116; Shook and Wiesner 2006: 20; Sawada and Wiesner 2006b: 452; Shook and Wu 2007: 69, 113; Wu 2011: 31.

Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, 1 paratype in JWGC, 1 paratype in ZSMC.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ LAOS north, 5-11.v.1997, 20 km NW Louang Namtha, N21°09.2, E101°18.7, alt 900± 100 m, E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, white, with yellow borders]; “HOLOTYPUS THERATES pseudoconfluens Sawada and Wiesner ” [printed, red] . Paratype female! 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]; “PARATYPUS THERATES pseudoconfluens Sawada and Wiesner ” [printed, red] . 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 pseudoconfluens, Sawada and Wiesner [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the laterally yellowish ventral laterally yellowish ventrites and yellowish elytral maculation which reaches the middle suture in its extension.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.7 mm- 8.3 mm, (mean= 7.4 mm, n=10). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (males Figs. 190, 191 , female Fig. 192 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth (one male with seven teeth) and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae extending posteriorally reach the basal half of the elytra, slightly shorter in the 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 or darker. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates, followed by a few longitudinal striae. 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 brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctuate in front, shallower in the apical half ( Fig. 185 ). Apex with angular lateral and sutural corner, nearly straight between. Maculation composed of a large yellowish humeral lunule extending from the marginal to the middle suture, leaving open a blackish dot at the lateral margin of the basal humps, completely connected with a yellowish central dot that is angled outwards toward the front and a light yellow apical lunule extending to the apical humps and in some specimens connected with the central dot ( Figs. 186- 188 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites yellowish laterally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 189 ) curved, with pin shaped and angled tip, total length 1.7 mm.

Distribution. Laos (Louangnamtha, Phongsaly, Louangphrabang), China (Yunnan).

Localities. LAOS, 20 km NW Louang Namtha, 5.-30.v.1997, 900- 1100 m ( JWCG) , Louangnamtha, Namtha Muang Sing , 5-31.v.1997, 900 - 1200 m ( JMCC) , Louangphrabang, Ban Kiukacham env., 19.vi.2009, 1400 -1450 m ( NHMB) .

Figures

Figures 177-192. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 177-183. pacholatkoi Sawada and Wiesner, 2004. 177) Habitus, holotype male. 178) Punctures of elytra, paratype male. 179-180. Maculae of elytra. 179) Paratype male. 180) Paratype female. 181) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 182-183. Labra. 182) Holotype male. 183) Paratype female. 184-192. pseudoconfluens Sawada and Wiesner, 1999. 184) Habitus, holotype male. 185) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 186-188. Maculae of elytra. 186) Holotype male. 187) Paratype female. 188) Female from Louangphrabang (NHMB). 189) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 190-192. Labri. 190) Holotype male. 191) Male from Louangnamtha (JWGC). 192) Paratype female.