Therates pacholatkoi Sawada and Wiesner, 2004

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

24. Therates pacholatkoi Sawada and Wiesner ( Fig. 177)

Therates pacholatkoi Sawada and Wiesner 2004: 260 , 261, f. 1 - 5.

Therates pacholatkoi . Sawada and Wiesner 2006b: 452.

Type depository. Holotype male and paratypes in JWGC.

Type status. Holotype male Type labels: Laos-N, Phongsaly prov. , Phongsaly env., 1500 m, 28.v.-20. vi. 2003, 21°41-2’ N 102°06 -8’E, Pacholátko and Kuba leg. [printed, yellow] ; HOLOTYPE Therates pacholatkoi SAWADA and WIESNER , ded. J. Wiesner 2004 [printed, red]. Paratypes Type labels: Laos-N, Phongsaly prov., Phongsaly env., 1500 m, 28.v.-20. vi. 2003, 21°41-2’ N 102°06 -8’E, Pacholátko and Kuban leg. [printed, yellow]; PARATYPE Therates pacholatkoi SAWADA and WIESNER , ded. J. Wiesner 2004 [printed, red].

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of laterally yellowish ventrites, completely brownish or brownish yellow basal humps, and light apical dot, which is not extended forward medially.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 5.8 mm- 7.6 mm (mean= 6.7 mm, n=63). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in female, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 182, female Fig. 183) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae slender, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in females, somewhat longer in the males, 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 a transverse furrow in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, barely longer than wide, barely more constricted in front than at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra: With basal and apical humps, shining black with brownish areas in variable extension, in the extreme case only the apical humps remain black, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in apical half ( Fig. 178). Apex with angular lateral corner and tiny sutural tooth, somewhat recurved between. The yellow elytral markings composed of a small or distinguished basal dot, a long humeral lunule, which extends onto elytral center and there often connected with a slender central dot, which is acutely angled outwards toward the front and a yellow apex of variable extension ( Figs. 179, 180). Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites brownish marginally. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsal joints darkened a little at apex. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 181) straight, produced into an angled tip distally, total length 1.6 mm.

Distribution. Laos (Phongsali).

Localities. LAOS, Phongsaly, Phongsaly env., 28.v.-20.vi.2003, 1500 m (OSCC),