Therates arunachalcolus 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 : 42-43

41. Therates arunachalcolus Sawada and Wiesner ( Fig. 314)

Therates arunachalcolus Sawada and Wiesner 2006a: 131 , 132, f. 4, 18, 19, 20.

Type depository. Holotype male in JWCG.

Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “NE INDIA, W Arunachal, 8 km S Jamiri, Sessa vic., 27°07'- 09’N, 92°34’E, 350 ± 50 m, 26. 5.-4. 6. 2005, L. Dembický and P. Pacholátko ” [printed, yellow]; “ HOLO- TYPE Therates arunachalcolus SAWADA and WIESNER , ded. J. Wiesner, 2005” [printed, red].

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of darkened margin of the labrum and sigmoid shaped central band.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.8 mm (n=1). Female unknown. Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 318) longer than wide, yellowish, darkened at laterally at base, 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 two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, longer than 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 in front, shallower in apical half ( Fig. 315). Apex rounded with a little sutural tooth. Maculation composed of a long yellow humeral lunule, yellow basal dot, broad sigmoid-shaped yellow central band, and yellow apex which reaches the apical humps ( Fig. 316). Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites brownish marginally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsomeres somewhat darkened distally. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 317) curved, tip elongated and bent, total length 2.1 mm.

Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh).