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)

Type - Holotype male, allotype female, Brazil, Espiritu Santo, Conceica da Carra, June 1972. leg. P. C. ELIAS, ex. ARTHUR ALLYN Collection, AME. Remarks - The lack of sexual dimorphism in this species is particularly of interest. Etymology - An arbitrary euphonious combination referring to the shape of the white DHW patch in both sexes. Ministrymon callicus sp. n. (Figs 15, 24) Diagnosis - Wings. Recognized by the profusely spotted, nearly irregularly banded, venter in which the markings are in dark shades of grey over light grey ground, not beige or golden over white. On the dorsum the entire FW and costa and margins of the HW are blackish, the black brand being nearly obscured at the distal end of the FW discal cell. Morphology. Male genitalia extremely robust and sculptured in all features; valval bilobes with prominent baso-lateral shoulders, caudal extensions narrow, and tapered térin inad in a two-step fashion. Description - Tailed as typical of the genus. Male (Fig. 15). DFW entirely blackish, obscuring black brand at distal end of discal cell. DHW with wide, crisp, blackish brown borders, across costa to vein Ml and around entire submargin, the latter showing a crisp marginal white line from cell M2 to the anal margin, with submarginal band elements in cells CuAl and CuA2 blacker and more spotlikc. DFW basad of dark borders dirty white. Ventral ground colour grizzled light grey throughout, showing lighter, whitish, intercellular colour only along submargins of FW and postmedial and submarginal areas of HW. Blocklike elements typical of species group prominent and enlarged and forming more bandlike patterns on both wings. Blocklike elements each centrally dark grey, distally and basally edged blackish; on FW forming postmedial FW band paralleled by blocks at center of discal cell and at cell-end, on HW showing dark blotches across the postbasal area, a nearly continuous medial band breaking into widened orbs at the cell-end, and distally with varigated white and gray intercellular patterns across the submargins. Limbal area with suffusive black near the anal angle and with a black "77tec/a-spot". Length of FW: 12.0 mm. Female. Unknown. Male genitalia (Fig. 24). Robust and extremely sculptured, saccus and falces both robust and of uneven contour, former prominent, length about two-thirds that of valvae; valvae with narrow caudal extensions, terminating in a two-step taper, bilobed areas extremely robust with prominent basally oriented triangulate shoulders. Aedeagus robust and exceeding length of rest of genitalia by about caecum length, latter displaced some 45 out of the plane of the shaft, shaft terminus broadly fluted, dorsum of terminus with row of robust microtrichial bundles. Type - Holotype male, Brazil, Espiritu Santo, Conceicâo da Barra, June 1972, leg. P. C. ELIAS, ex. ARTHUR ALLYN Collection, AME. Remarks - It is notable that the male genitalia of this species generally resemble those of taxa in the blue "phrutus" group. JOHNSON & AUSTIN (1998) noted the same for certain white species of Rondônian Ministrymon. They suggested that despite the drastic external colour differences, one subgroup of "white" Ministrymon may be more closely