The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae
Author
Wiesner, Jürgen
Dresdener Ring 11 D- 38444 Wolfsburg Germany
juergen.wiesner@wolfsburg.de
text
Insecta Mundi
2013
2013-09-12
2013
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.5176988
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1942-1354
5176988
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26.
Therates pseudochenelli pseudochenelli
Probst and Wiesner
(
Fig. 193
)
Therates pseudochenelli
Probst and Wiesner 1994b: 94
, f. 4, 9 - 11.
Therates pseudochenelli pseudochenelli
.
Moravec and Wiesner 2001: 228
;
Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 62
, T. 17, f. 9, 10, T. 40, f. 4, T. 58, f. 1.
Type depository.
Holotype
male in
JWGC
,
paratypes
in
JMCC
,
JWGC
,
RNFC
and
ZSMC
.
Type status.
Holotype
male
!
Type labels
: “
THAILAND
, 1992,
Ban Huai Po
, leg.
S. Bily
, 17. 5.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “
THERATES pseudochenelli PROBST and WIESNER
, det.
J. Wiesner
, 1994” [printed]; “HOLOTYPUS” [printed, red, with black borders]
.
Paratype
female
!
Type labels
: “
THAILAND
, 1992,
Ban Huai Po
, leg.
S. Bily
, 17. 5.” [printed, with yellow borders]; “
THERATES pseudochenelli PROBST and WIESNER
, det.
J. Wiesner
, 1994” [printed]; “
PARATYPUS
” [printed, red, with black borders]
.
2 Paratype females
!
Type
labels
: “
NW
Thailand
,
19.19N
,
97.59E
,
Mae Hong Son
, 1991, Ban Huai Po,
1600-2000m
, 30.4.-4.5.,
L. Dembický
leg.” [printed, with black borders]; “
THERATES pseudochenelli PROBST and WIESNER
, det. J. Wiesner 1994“ [printed]; “
PARATYPUS
” [printed, red]
.
Paratype
female
Type labels
:
THAI
,
17.-24.V.1991
,
CHIANG
DAO
1000m
,
19°25’N
98°52’E
,
Vít Kuban
leg. [printed, yellow];
THERATES pseudochenelli PROBST and WIESNER
, det. J. Wiesner, 1994 [printed]; “
PARATYPUS
” [printed, red, with black borders]
.
Paratype
female!
Type labels
: “
THAI
24-29.IV.1993
, DOI SUTHEP, Pacholatko and
Dembicky
leg.” [printed]; “
THERATES pseudochenelli PROBST and WIESNER
, det.
J. Wiesner
1994“ [printed]; “
PARATYPUS
“ [printed, red, with black borders]
.
Diagnosis.
Distinguished by the central dot orientated laterally and toward the front.
Re-description.
Size:
Total length (without labrum) 7.0 mm-
8.7 mm
, (mean=8.0 mm, n=22).
Head:
Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male
Fig. 199
, females
Figs. 200, 201
) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth (
one female
with five,
one female
with seven teeth) and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish (in
one female
distal segments of palpi darker). Antennae extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in female, somewhat longer in male, 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 pits 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 brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate anteriorally, shallower in the apical half (
Fig. 194
). Apex with angular lateral corner and sutural tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a large brownish yellow humeral lunula extending from the lateral margin to the middle suture, leaving open a blackish dot at the lateral margin of the basal humps, connected with a brownish yellow horizontal central dot with back margin that is orientated laterally and angled toward the front, and a light yellow apical lunule, reaching the apical humps (
Figs. 195-197
).
Ventral aspect
: Venter black, ventrites yellowish marginally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres in some specimens darkened somewhat distally.
Aedeagus:
(
Fig. 198
) curved, broadly rounded distally, total length
1.8 mm
.
Distribution.
Thailand
(
Chiang Mai
,
Mae Hong Son
,
Nan
,
Loei
,
Nakhon Si Thammarat
),
Malaysia
(
Pulau Pinang
,
Perak
,
Pahang
).
Localities.
THAILAND
,
Chiang Mai
,
Doi Suthep
to
Doi Pui
,
19.-23.iv.1991
(
ZSMC
)
,
Chiang Mai
,
Doi Pui mt.
,
26.iv.-9.v.1996
,
1000-1600 m
(
ZSMC
)
,
Mae Hong Son
,
Ban Huai Po
,
17.v.1990
(
JMCC
)
,
Mae Hong Son
,
Ban Huai Po
,
30.iv.-4.v.1991
,
1600-2000 m
(
ZSMC
)
,
Nakhon Si Thammarat
,
Khao Luang
,
Kiriwong
,
1.-6.iv.
1997
, 200 m, (
NHMB
)
;
MALAYSIA
,
Pulau Pinang
, (
BMNH
)
,
Pahang
,
Tanah Rata
,
9.v.1985
(
RNFC
)
,
17.iv.1985
(
RNFC
)
,
22.iv.1985
(
RNFC
)
,
Pahang
,
Cameron
highlands, “Power-Station”, ~
800 m
,
iv.1990
(
ZSMC
)
,
Pahang
,
Benom Mts.
,
15 km
E Kampong Dong
,
700 m
,
1.iv.1998
(
OSCC
)
,
Pahang
,
Benom Mts.
,
Kampong
Dok,
3-900 m
,
1.-15.iv.1998
(
OSCC
)
.