Therates pseudorugifer pentalabiodentatus Matalin, 2001

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 : 11

3a. Therates pseudorugifer pentalabiodentatus Matalin

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Therates pseudorugifer pentalabiodentatus Matalin 2001: 387 , 388, 389, f. 6 - 11.

Therates pseudorugifer pentalabiodentatus . Shook and Wiesner 2006: 20; Shook and Wu 2007: 71, 114; Wu 2011: 31.

Type depository. Holotype female in ZIN.

Type status. Holotype female! Type labels: “319. Yunnan, Xiaomengyang , NE of Cheli and 64th km) 850 m, 6.V.1957, D. Panfilov ” [handwritten, cyrillic]; “HOLOTYPUS, Therates , pseudorugifer, pentalabiodentatus snew species, det. A. V. Matalin, 2000” [printed, red] .

Diagnosis. Distinguished from the nominate subspecies by the five dentate labrum.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 9.5 mm, (n=1). Teneral! Head: Shining blackish. Mandibles yellowish, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum ( Fig. 27 ) as wide as long, yellowish, with five apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally to 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, remaining antennomeres blackish. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth, with a transverse furrow in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining blackish, as long as wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete. Elytra: Shining blackish, with basal and apical humps, slightly punctate in front, nearly absent in the apical half ( Fig. 24 ). Elytral apex transparent brown. Apex with lateral and sutural corner, slightly recurved between. Maculation yellow elytral markings composed of a short humeral lunule, a narrow basal dot, and trapezoid horizontal central dot ( Fig. 25 ). Ventral aspect: Venter blackish. Legs brownish.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Figures

Figures 17-27. Therates. All scales = 1 mm. 17-22, 26. pseudorugifer pseudorugifer Sawada and Wiesner, 1999. 17) Habitus, holotype male. 18) Punctures of elytra, holotype male. 19-20. Maculae of elytra. 19) Holotype male. 20) Paratype female. 21-22. Labra. 21) Holotype male. 22) Paratype female. 26) Left lateral view of aedeagus, holotype. 23-25, 27. pseudorugifer pentalabiodentatus Matalin, 2001, holotype female. 23) Habitus. 24) Punctures of elytra. 25) Maculae of elytra. 27) Labrum.