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

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

Areas {tuneta) tuneta (HEWITSON) (Figs 14-16) Thecla tuneta HEWITSON 1865: 72, Figs 14-15. Thecla (Theritas) tuneta (HEWITSON): DRAUDT 1919:746, Pl. 146, row d, Fig. "tuneta" and "tuneta U". Areas tuneta (HEWITSON): D'ABRERA 1995: 1104-1105, Figs "A. tuneta"; AUSTIN & JOHNSON 1995: 34, Figs 3, 7, 11-12, 21, 25, 30; SALAZAR & CONSTANTINO 1995a: 124. Areas jivaro NlCOLAY: NlCOLAY 1971: 105, Figs 5, 1 lc-d (misidentification). Areas marginata AUSTIN et JOHNSON, 1995: 32, Figs 2, 6, 10, 15, 20, 24, 29, syn. n. Areas viriditas AUSTIN et JOHNSON, 1995: 34, Figs 4, 8, 12, 17, 22, 26, 31, syn. n. Material examined -Type: lectotype male (Figs 14-15), BMNH(E) 266275, BRAZIL: [Amazon], herewith designated. Non-type material: ECUADOR: Archidona (ZSM, 1$); PERU: Chanchamayo (NMW, 1$), Huambo (NMW: lcT), Rodriguez de Mendoza (HNHM, 1$); Tingo Maria (NMW, let, 1 ?). Without locality (NMW, 2 SS)- Genitalia dissections. Gen. prep. Bálint No. 1012 (male, NMW, Peru, Huambo), No. 1013 (male, NMW, Peru, Tingo Maria), No. 1014 (female, NMW, Peru, Tingo Maria), No. 1015 (female, HNHM, Peru, Rodriguez de Mendoza). Remarks - The taxon Thecla tuneta was described as a species of Thecla from an unknown number of male specimens deposited in the SAUNDERS collection originating from "South America". DRUCE (1907: 567) wrote that GROSE-SMITH possessed the types of some taxa described by HEWITSON on the basis of specimens deposited in the collection of SAUNDERS. The GROSE-SMITH collection was purchased by JOICEY, whose collection was donated to the BMNH in 1929 (STEARN 1998: 218-219). One Thecla tuneta specimen from the GROSE-SMITH collection was segregated by GOODSON ( 1946) and curated as the type of Th. tuneta many decades ago. This specimen most certainly belonged to the specimen(s) seen by HEWITSON. The place of origin for the species described by HEWITSON is generally indicated, but there is no such indication for his "Thecla tuneta". HEWITSON ( 1865), on eight occasions, named the SAUNDERS collection as the source of type material of his taxa. Brazil is mentioned three times, Mexico and the Amazon mentioned two times each, and Tapajos mentioned once. Since there is no locality label affixed to the "type" specimen, it is impossible to discern more information concerning the type locality of "Thecla tuneta". Therefore, I restrict the type locality of Thecla tuneta as "Amazon, Brazil", indicating that the specimen originates from the Amazon Basin, as it represents the western phenotype of Areas tuneta sensu lato (see below). KlRBY (1879) indicated the origin of the specimen as Ecuador. There is no evidence what supports KlRBY's indication. I examined and databased this "type" specimen of Areas tuneta as a syntype of Thecla tunea for the Type Catalogue of the Neotropical Eumaeines of the