Therates

Overview

*Therates* Latreille, 1816 comprises around 130 species of diurnal tiger beetles inhabiting moist forests across South and Southeast Asia, from the Sundaland archipelago to the Philippines. These dark, flattened beetles hunt across low vegetation and forest-floor substrates near streams, with larvae developing in soil close to plant bases.

Type species: Therates labiatus Fabricius, 1801 (originally Cicindela) [by subsequent designation (Latreille 1817)]

1. Wiesner, J. (2020) — checklist 2. Latreille, P.A. (1816) — original genus 3. Naviaux, R. (multiple papers) — Therates monographs 4. Pearson, D.L. et al. (2020) — Field Guide India 5. Naviaux, R. (1991) — Les Cicindèles de Thaïlande, étude faunistique. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon 60(7): 209-288. DOI: 10.3406/linly.1991.10944 [includes Therates revisions] 6. Naviaux, R. (2007) — Therates monographic revision. [grey literature, multiple papers] 7. Naviaux, R. & Pinratana, A. (2004) — The Tiger Beetles of Thailand. Sunpriting, 177 pp. 8. Duran, D.P. & Gough, H.M. (2020) — Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Cicindelidae) and reclassification within Coleoptera. Systematic Entomology 45(4): 723-729. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12440 [validates Cicindelidae as separate family] 9. Gough, H.M., Duran, D.P., Kawahara, A.Y. & Toussaint, E.F.A. (2018) — A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). Systematic Entomology 43(3): 567-586. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12324 [ML phylogeny of 328 taxa, 9 gene regions] +10 citations · full list in paid edition[CassolaBrzoska2008] Cassola, F. & Brzoska, D. (2008) — Collecting notes and new data on the tiger beetle fauna of Sulawesi, Indonesia, with descriptions of fourteen new taxa. Cicindela 40(1-4): 1–110. [68 spp. collected, 13 n.sp. + 1 n.ssp.; habitat data, syntopy records, >5,000 specimens; Sulawesi endemic fauna 80.1%, 116 total spp.]

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