Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 94. (Budapest 2002)

Bálint, Zs.: Miscellaneous notes on Arcas Swainson, 1832 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Eumaeini)

Areas cypria (GEYER) (Figs 7-13) Theritas cypria GEYER, [1837]: 36, PI. 162, Figs 945-946. Pseudolycaenapaphia FELDER et FELDER, 1865: 234, PI. 28, Figs 12-13; GODMAN & SALVIN 1887: 2 (synonym of cypria). Thecla cypria (HÜBNER) [sie]: HEWITSON 1865: 71 (new combination); GODMAN & SALVIN 1877: 13, PI. 48, Figs 12-13. Thecla {Theritas) cypria paphia FELDER: DRAUDT 1919: 746, PI. 146, row d, Fig. "cypria". Thecla publica RÖBER, 1923: 58; BRIDGES 1988:11.108; BRIDGES 1994: 387; syn. n. Areas cypria (GEYER): NlCOLAY 1971: 101 (new combination), Figs. Id, 4c, 7e-f, lOd. LUIS-MARTINEZ etal. 1995: 127; LLORENTE BOUSQUETS et al. 1995: 46; d'ABRERA 1995: 1104-1105, Figs "A. cypria"; SALAZAR & CONSTANTINO 1995a: 124. Areas cypria publica (RUBER): d'ABRERA 1995: 1104 (new combination); SALAZAR 2001: 137. Material examined -Types: Pseudolycaena paphia, syntype male (Figs 9-11), BMNH(E) No. 265909, COLOMBIA: Bogotá; syntype male, BMNH(E) No. 265910, COLOMBIA: Bogotá. Non-type material: COLOMBIA: Muzo (ZSM, 3 $$). Remarks - Theritas cypria was described on the basis of an unknown number of male specimens from "Yucatan". The type material is presumably lost. The species was carefully compared with the original description and figures (Fig. 7), and was promptly redescribed by NlCOLAY (1971), who transferred it from Theritas to Areas. Pseudolycaena paphia was described by the Austrian CAJETAN FELDER and RUDOLF FELDER on the basis of an unknown number of male specimens from "Nova Granada: Bogotá" (= Colombia: Bogotá) purchased from LlNDIG. The original description is accompanied by excellent figures of the species (Fig. 8). I have found two original FELDER specimens in the BMNH labelled as "Bogotá, Lindig". They perfectly match the original source (Figs 9-11). Therefore the synonymization of GODMAN and SALVIN, based on the comparison of the figures, and subsequently not altered by NlCOLAY (1971: 99), is supported by the type specimens. The southern border of distribution of A. cypria was given as Magdalena Valley, Elcentro in Colombia (NlCOLAY 1971: 100), from where Thecla publica was described by RÖBER (1923) on the basis of a single female (= holotype). Thecla publica was not mentioned in the paper of NlCOLAY (1971). Subsequently Thecla publica was listed as a species of "Thecla (New World Eumaeini)" by BRIDGES (1988, 1994) and mentioned as a "race" of Areas cypria by D'ABRERA (1995) and SALAZAR (2001). Type specimens of taxa described by RÖBER are deposited at least in five institutions (see LAMAS 1993). The depository of the holotype of Thecla publica is unknown; therefore I was not able to locate and study it. However, for me it is obvious from the description that the holotype of Thecla publica is