Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 93. (Budapest 2001)

Bálint, Zs. ; Benyamini, D.: Taxonomic notes, faunistics and species descriptions of the austral South American polyommatine lycaenid genus Pseudolucia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): the chilensis and collina species-groups

elaborating life histories of Pseudolucia species. Another aspect of this pioneer work is locating historical specimens in Chile. Thus it was necessary to visit LUIS PENA, the nestor of Chilean entomology in the 20th century who, by that time, was already seriously ill and almost completely incapacitated. He saw (in proof) the original colour plates of the immature stages of Pseudolucia later published in "Synopsis on biological studies..." (BENYAMINI 1995). Before his terminal illness, Mr. PENA had also begun a search for suspected undescribed Pseudolucia in his collection, presently held by his relative Dr. PEDRO VIDAL of the Universidad Catolica de Chile. This collection included undescribed entities not only from PEN A's own work but also that of other collectors. In the collection, labels "Coll. L. PENA G." indicate specimens not collected by PENA himself (but originating from other collectors and placed in PENA's collections) while the labels "Leg. L. PENA G." indicate he himself was the collector. In addition, quite often Mr. PENA marked suspected new species by a printed label "Pseudolucia nov. sp.". When visited by BENYAMINI, Mr. PENA suggested a loan of his polyommatine collection for two purposes: (1) identification of known taxa and systematic arrangement of the collection and (2) recognition of undescribed entities. Mr. PENA's intent was to bequeath the types of any taxa described from his collection to the collections of Museo Nációnál de História Natural at Quinta Normal, Santiago de Chile. However, for the interim study suggested by PENA for the authors of the present paper, two courses were followed: first, abdomens of specimens in the PENA Collection suspected as representing undescribed species were excised, catalogued, and forwarded to the senior author for taxonomic study; second, many specimens collected more recently in Chile by the junior author were also transported to Budapest and examined jointly by the present authors at Hungarian Natural History Museum. The first result of this study is published here, reviewing taxa which have previously been poorly known or misinterpreted, and also describing new species. MATERIAL AND METHODS Taxonomic keys and synonymies, along with geographic and biological data, are provided for all species. Taxonomic treatments follow the sequence of the Keys. The Material Examined section lists the material deposited in the Lepidoptera collection of Hungarian Natural History Museum. Notes concerning ecological, historical or taxonomic data are given for each species. Further, hitherto unpublished data of newly collected material or hitherto not elaborated historical samples are given as Appendix I. Genital dissections are listed with numbers from the genital dissection database executed by the senior author at the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The Appendix II lists all the host plants involved in the present paper giving the species names of the butterflies as references.