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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LXII 2001 pp. 167-175 Three new eumaeine species from the Andes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Zs. Bálint Three new eumaeine species from the Andes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) — Three eumaeine species are described from the Andes: Penaincisalia perezi sp. n. (type locality: Peru, dep. Ancash, Cordillera Bianca, Quebrada Demanda, 4500 m), Penaincisalia lamasi sp. n. (type locality: Peru, dep. Ancash, Cordillera Bianca, Camino Portachuelo, 4700 m) and Podanotum andrewneildi sp. n. (type locality: Venezuela, Mcrida, km 12.5 Apartaderos-Santo Domingo, 3200 m). The diversity of the genera Penaincisalia and Podanotum is briefly discussed and a key for species is presented. The species paramosa Constantino et Salazar, 1998 is transferred from Penaincisalia to Podanotum, new combination. With 9 original ligures. Key words: Penaincisalia, Podanotum, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela. INTRODUCTION The lycaenid butterfly tribe Eumaeini of the neotropics is not satisfactorily known. Only in the last few decades of the XXth century the American lepidopterists Harry Clench, Kurt Johnson, Stanley Nicolay and Robert Robbins started to work systematically and publish on the tribe. However, many species and genera remain undescribed, and still there is no sufficient supraspecific nor higher classification for the tribe (Brown 1993: 45). The present paper adds new data to the knowledge of two recently erected genera, namely Penaincisalia and Podanotum, which belong to the same group of genera within the Eumaeini (Bálint & Wojthsiak 2000: 185). The genus Penaincisalia was described by Johnson (1990) and subsequently reviewed (1992). However the existence of two taxa was overlooked, previously recorded in the Huascarán National Park, situated in northern Peru (Lamas & Perez 1983). During my Peruvian expedition in 1995 I collected both of these species and examined them in the Lepidoptera collections of the Museo de História Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) (Bálint 1997). I describe these two species in the present paper. The genus Podanotum was erected by Torres and his colleagues (Torres et al. 1996)