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

specimen from the ZSM was intact. This also typifies the problems often found amongst historical lycaenid material (cf. NABOKOV 1949: 485, BÁLINT & JOHNSON 1995b). - Nomenclature. URETA (1956: 260) incorrectly placed the taxon in the combination "Itylos endymion inconspicua" and described another taxon, "oligocyanea" as a trinomen of endymion. This reflected simplistic view of Austral polyommatine nomenclature; oligocyanea properly belongs in Pseudolucia (see above under "Taxonomic History"). However, in the previously mentioned paper, as well as in his "Catalogo" (URETA 1963), there is no indication of the occurrence of "Itylos endymion inconspicua" in Chile. Type material examined - Coloured glossy photos (DW and VW) of the male specimen will be selected as Lectotype by LAMAS & ROBBINS were studied by the senior author in MUSM, labelled as "Cuzco, Peru, 3500 m, Coll. Fassl [printed]; ex col Draudt [handwritten]". Additional material examined - Peru: 1 male 1 female: "OUantaitambo, Cuzco, 3.1.1947, Alt. 9200 ft.; Collector J.C. Pallister" (AMNH). 2 females: "Cuzco, 3500 m, Coll. Fassl; Ex Coll. W.P. Comstock" (AMNH). 1 male: "Cuzco, 390; Collection E.I. Huntington, No. 1053" (AMNH). 2 males 1 female: "Cuzco, 3500 m, Coll. Fassl. (E. Pfeiffer, München)" (ZSM). 1 male: "Cuzco, 4000 m, Adams' Bequest" (BMNH). 2 males, 1 female: "Cuzco, 4200 m, 1906, Fa[ssl]" (NMB). Specimen without specific data: 1 male: Peru (ZSM). - Microscopic slides: male, Brit. Mus. No. 19154 (Cuzco). Dissections stored in glycerin vials (gen. prep. Nos BÁLINT in HNHM): males, 381, 445, 446 (all from Cuzco); females, 382 (Cuzco, with /. titicaca abdomen), 544 (Cuzco). Etymology - Inconspicua, gender feminin, with the meaning "inconspicuous", referring the superficial similarity to congener P. vapa. Paralycaeides vapa (STAUDINGER, 1894) Cupido vapa STAUDINGER, 1894: 79. Lycaena vapa STAUDINGER, 1894: Table II, Fig. 4. Itylos vapa DRAUDT, 1921: 822 (Table 144, line m). Itylos vapa NABOKOV. 1945: 38. Itylos oreopola HAYWARD, 1949: 580 (synonym according to BÁLINT 1995). Itylos vapa BRIDGES. 1988: 1.362; 11.51. Itylos vapa, DESCIMON, 1986: 519. Boliviella vapa BALLETTO, 1993: 231. Paralycaeides vapa BÁLINT, 1993a: 23, Pl. I Va, Figs 59-62. Paralycaeides oreopola BÁLINT. 1993a: 24, PI. IVA, Figs 64-65. Paralycaeides oreopola BÁLINT 1995: 5 (as synonym). Figures- Wings: 9-22. Male genitalia: 30, 35, 39. Female genitalia: 31, 43. Diagnosis - This species strongly resembles the newly described P. haz.elea but with wider wingshape, more intensively patterned VHW, and thicker and longer male genital aedeagus. FW shape elongated with rounded and relatively longer outer margin, HW slightly tailed. FW and HW ground unicolourous brown, veins not so conspicuous, dark brown. DHW ground with somewhat darker brown basal area with strong pubescence, cell CuA2 delicately tailed, fringes long and prominently checkered. VFW ground warm brown, discoidal spot and postmedian spots paler brown, large and yellowish ringed, marginal pattern with relatively conspicuous and continuous darker marginal and paler antemarginal spot row. VHW with very complex ityloid pattern: ground warm brown with conspicuous silvery suffusion between elements; basal, postbasal spots usually smaller than, submedian, median and postmedian spots in ce Sc+Rl, cc Rs with quadrad shaped postmedian spot, discoidal and postdiscal spots of cells Ml and M2 coclcscent, cells M3, CuAl and CuA2 with long, conspicuous silvery triangular spots, submarginal area with shadows of arrowhead markings and darker submarginal spots. Male genital uncus pointed, aedeagus long but not slender with subzonal element three times longer than suprazonal one. Proximal tabs of subzonal sheath only slightly wider than at zone, valve with strong and wide apical process. Female genital henia not so heavily sclerotized showing a relatively narrow hook, pointed in lateral view, cca. three times longer than wide in ventral aspect. FW length of males = 8.5-9.5 mm (n=10). FW length of females = 8.9-9.5 mm (n=5). Type locality - Bolivia, Huallatami. Distribution- Spatial: widely distributed from the high Andean (altiplano) region of W Bolivia to NW Argentina (Salta, Jujuy, Catamarca and Tucumán) and most probably NE Chile (Tarapaca) and S Peru between elevations 600 m (Argentina, Tucumán) and 4500 m (Altiplano region) (Figs 27-28). Temporal: dates range from November to May indicating bivoltine or multibrooded life cycle (Fig. 29).