Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 97. (Budapest 2005)

Bálint, Zs.: A review of the Neotropical hairstreak genus Annamaria with notes on further genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

The generic name Annamaria was considered unavailable by ROBBINS (2002: 201). Therefore, he introduced Lamasina and placed to it all the taxa of Annamaria under the new name he proposed, along with establishing a new combination for a fourth taxon, Lamasina saphonota (CONSTANTINO, SALAZAR et JOHNSON, 1993), (ROBBINS, 2002) a species originally described in Denivia JOHNSON, 1992 (type species: Thecla deniva HEWITSON, 1874). The aims of the present paper are to: ( 1 ) review Annamaria and move Lamasina to synonymy, (2) delineate constituent species of Annamaria, including three new species in three species groups, and provide information on the nomenclature, taxonomy, and biogeography of the genus; (3) demonstrate that the original combination of Denivia saphonota CONSTANTINO, JOHNSON et SALAZAR, 1993 and the taxonomic action of ROBBINS resulting Lamasina saphonota are erroneous; and (4) discuss previous groupings and recent systematics of the genus. MATERIALS AND METHODS Specimens have been examined and databased from the following European public collections, abbreviated as follows throughout the text (curators acknowledged herein listed in parentheses): BMNH = The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom (Mrs KlM GOODGER and Mr PHILLIP R. ACKERT); NMW = Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria (Drs SABINE GAAL and MATRIN LÖDL); MNHN = Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Dr JACQUES PIERRE); SMN = Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany (Dr CHRISTOPH HÄUSER); ZMJU = Zoological Museum of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (Dr TOMASZ PYRCZ and Prof JANUSZ WOJTUSIAK); ZSM = Zoologische Staatssammlung, München, Germany (Dr AXEL HAUSMANN). Further abbreviation: ICZN = International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1999. Recent data and field observations were shared with the author by Mr HANS DAHNERS (CD, Colombia) and Mr PIERRE BOYER (CB, France). Specimens in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) were examined under light microscopy Olympus SZ60. All microscopic images were taken with an Olympus Camedia Master Digital Camera installed on the microscope. Dissections were made using standard techniques. The genital preparations are placed in plastic microvials and attached to the specimens; they have been documented, numbered and databased in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest ("BÁLINT gen. prep. No. #") or in the Natural History Museum, London ("BMNH vial. No. #"). Anatomical terms follow SCOTT (1990).