Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 90. (Budapest 1998)

Bálint, Zs., Johnson, K. ; Austin, G. T.: New species of Eumaeini (Lycaenidae) from Southeastern Brazil II. Review of regional Ministrymon and descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Morphology. Male genitalia showing genital capsule of quite rectangular shape with elongate, triangulate and blunt saccus; valvae very squat, caudal extension short and relatively robust, bilobes with extremely prominent ventral keels. Description - Tailed as typical of the genus. Male (Fig. 7). DFW brownish black with discal cell completely covered by fuscous brand and with areas immediately distad suffusive black. DHW with large extensive, but irregularly defined, field of silvery blue (covering medial areas of the discal cell and cells M2-M3, thereafter extending to the margin in cells CuAl and CuA2 with promient black spots marginad in the latter two cells and black line around the area of the anal lobe. VFW smoky dark tan from base to well defined red-brown postmedial spots band costa to cell M3); distad of band, at apex, ground white crossed by three to four red-brown submarginal blotches, toward tornus again suffused smoky; VHW with wide red postbasal and medial bands of red, edged distally with black and basally with white, separated by an area of suffusive ground, tan toward costa, white towards anal margin, and broken by two red spots across the discal cell connecting the bands. Anal area of medial band bent in a jagged "W" shape and prominently edged with distal white and black. Distad of bands wing ground variegated, whiter toward costa, smoky toward anal angle with last marked by black spot with basal white slash, "Thecla-spot" prominent and red, surrounded by red suffusion in the adjacent cells. FW length: 12.5-14.0 mm. Female. Unknown. Male genitalia (Fig. 19). Genital capsule of quite rectangular shape, with elongate, triangulate and blunt saccus; valvae very squat, caudal extensions short and relatively robust, bilobes with extremely prominent ventral keels. Aedeagus narrow, length exceeding rest of genitalia by about caecum length, latter displaced some 45 from plane of shaft, shaft terminus with somewhat sculptured dorsal cap marked by four bundles of microtrichia. Types - Holotype male, MPM, Brazil, Rio [Castorina], 2 August 1956, FW 13.0 mm. Paratypes. MPM: five males, Brazil, Icatu, 5 May 1951 (four), 8 June 1967 (one); one male, Brazil, Colcgia Batista, 13 June 1937; one male, Brazil, Gavea, 30 May 1930 (see Remarks). Remarks - The presence of this species in the MPM GAGARIN material, marked by obviously supralimital FW brands, draws attention to overlooked diversity in Ministrymon. Dr. K. S. BROWN notes additional GAGARIN material is at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Curitiba, Brazil) ("IOC"); it is likely that more specimens of this species may be found there. Because of limited original loan of this taxon, paratypes could not be marked for additional distribution beyond MPM. Etymology - Patronym for ARTHUR BORKIN. "uncC (white) group JOHNSON and AUSTIN (1998) demonstrated unelaborated diversity in the dorsally white Ministrymon (hereafter, "una" or white group), showing that, along with radical genitalic differences, many new species of the group were readily recognized by extraordinary ("supralimital" sensu ELIOT 1973) configurations of the DFW brands in males. This is true of nearly all the species described below, the condition of the male FW in one species being so like the female of another that the gender of such males has been previously misdiagnosed.