Therates moraveci 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 : 9-10

2. Therates moraveci Sawada and Wiesner

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Therates moraveci Sawada and Wiesner 1999b: 303 , 306, f. 11, 21.

Therates moraveci . Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 81.

Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, paratype female in NHMW.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ LAOS centr., Bolikhamsai prov., BAN NOK env., 9.-14. 5. 1998, alt. 220 ± 50 m, Route No. 8, N 18°08.7' E104°28.1' GPS, E. Jendek, O. Šauša leg.” [printed, white, with yellow borders]; “HOLOTYPUS THERATES moraveci Sawada and Wiesner ” [printed, red] . Paratype female! Type labels: “ Laos centr., Bolikhamsai prov., BAN NAPE-Kaew Nua Pass , 18. 4.-1. 5. 1998, alt. 600 ± 100 m, N 18°22.3, E 105°09.1 (GPS), M. Štrba and R. Hergovits leg.” [printed, white]; “Paratype THERATES moraveci Sawada and Wiesner ” [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of length of the antennae, absence of maculae on the elytral apex, and presence of a basal dot.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.9 mm- 7.5 mm (mean= 7.2 mm, n=2). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 15 , female 16) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in male, somewhat shorter in female, 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 remaining antennomeres brownish black, distal two antennomeres in male flattened. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with a transverse furrow and 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 the apical third ( Fig. 12 ). Apex with lateral and sutural corner, recurved between. Maculation composed of a brownish yellow humeral lunule, a brownish yellow basal dot, and a small yellow central dot which is acutely angled outwards toward the front ( Fig. 13 ). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 14 ) straight, with produced tip, total length 2.0 mm.

Distribution. Laos (Borikhamxai).

Figures

Figures 4-16. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 4-10. montaneus Werner, 1992. 4) Habitus, paratype female. 5) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 6-7. Maculae of elytra. 6) Holotype male. 7) Allotype female. 8-10. Labra. 8) Holotype male. 9) Paratype female. 10) Allotype female. 11-16. moraveci Sawada and Wiesner, 1999. 11) Habitus, holotype male. 12) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 13) Maculae of elytra, holotype male. 14) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 15-16. Labra. 15) Holotype male. 16) Paratype female.