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Bálint, Zs. ; Johnson, K.: Taxonomic synopsis of the high Andean and Austral lycaenid genus Paralycaeides Nabokov, 1945 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Polyommatini)

ft, 11.1906, G.R. Ockenden, Rothschild Bequest"). Also from high montane Peru under P. vapa are listed a pair from "Tirapata", figured as Figs 61-62 in PI. IVA. Since P. hazelea was discovered in 1994, two years after the compilation of the BÁLINT catalogue, above listed specimens most probably represent the new taxon; we do not designate them as paratypes, however, we could not reexamine them. Etymology - "Hazelea", gender feminin; the name is after Shade's daughter Hazel, in Nabokov's Pale Fire, whose suicide is at center of Shade's poem and who turns up, after her death and just before Shade's, in the form of a butterfly. Paralycaeides inconspicua (DRAUDT, 1921) Itylos inconspicua DRAUDT, 1921: 822, Plate 144, line m. Paralycaeides inconspicua NABOKOV, 1945: 36. Itylos endymion inconspicua URETA, 1956: 260 (wrong combination). Paralycaeides inconspicua DESCIMON, 1986: 23. Paralycaeides inconspicua BÁLINT, 1993a: 23, PI IVa, Fig. 66. Figures- Wings: 5-8. Male genitalia: 34, 38. Female genitalia: 42. Diagnosis - This species, having a delicately patterned, nearly unicolorous, silvery VHW, cannot be mistaken with any other Neotropical polyommatine. FW costa straight, apex sliglhly pointed. FW shape elongated with rounded outer margin, HW delicately tailed. FW and HW ground unicolourous brown with very thin black marginal border, veins not so conspicuous but visible, dark brown. DHW ground with somewhat darker brown basal area covered by thin pubescence, cell CuA2 delicately tailed, fringes grey and not checkered. VFW ground grey, discoidal spot and postmedian spots pale greyish brown, small with whitish halos, marginal pattern with well visible darker marginal and paler antemarginal arrowhead spot row. VHW with commonplace polyommatine pattern: ground silvery grey; basal, postbasal and submedian spots small, postmedian spots creating heavily waved vertical line, submarginal area with vestigial anowhead pattern and marginal spots. Male genitalia uncus pointed, aedeagus short and wide with subzonal element two or two-and-a-half times longer than suprazonal one. Proximal tabs of subzonal sheath two times wider than at zone. Female genital henia sclerotized showing a strong incurved hook and pointed in lateral view, two times longer than wide in ventral aspect. FW length of males = 8.5-9.0 mm (n=5). FW length of female: 9.2 mm (n=l). Type locality - Peru, Cuzco. Distribution - Spatial: known only from central Peru, Cuzco Department (Cuzco, OUantaitambo) at very high elevations 3500-4200 m (Figs 27-28). Temporal: only a pair of specimens have specific data; these suggest a January flight period (Fig. 29). Biology- Totally unknown. The following polyommatine lycaenid taxa were recorded from the Cuzco region, probably inhabiting the same habitat (listed in alphabetical order): Eldoradina sylphis (DRAUDT), itylos titicaca (WEYMER), Leptotes andicola (GODMAN et SALVIN). Lépiotes lamasi BÁLINT et JOHNSON, Madeleinea koa (DRUCE), Madeleinea pacis (DRAUDT) and Nabokovia faga (DOGNIN). Remarks - Identification. Superficially the taxon can be easily identified, in spite of its name, by the finely patterned, almost unicolourous silvery VHW. - Sampling error. The senior author formerly considered P. inconspicua one of the rarest species among the Neotropical polyommatine lycaenids. This was because among all the samples in European collections, he could locate only a single male specimen at the BMNH (BÁLINT 1993a: 23). Later, he was able to find another eight P. inconspicua individuals in additional European collections (BÁLINT 1995b). Among these were seven specimens from the FASSL series used for the original description. GERARDO LAMAS informed the senior author (in litt.) that P. inconspicua was represented in the butterfly collection of the Museo de História Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos [MUSM] by ten specimens. This is a good example of the historical sampling error so typical of the faunistics of high Andean butterflies (cf. SHAPIRO 1994: 39-42). Among two females originally available for morphological studies, the abdomen of an AMNH specimen had been replaced by an /. titicaca abdomen (gen. prep. No. 382 BÁLINT) and only a