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)

ganimedes (CRAMER, 1775) = ganymedes auct. = nobilis (HERRICH-SCHÄFFER, 1854) laîhyi sp. n. rhaptissima group rhapsodia sp. n. rhaptissima (JOHNSON, 1991), replacement name for mirabilis = mirabilis (LATHY, 1930), homonym = mirabilissima (D'ABRERA , 1995), unnecessary replacement name The species groups can be easily distinguished by their qualitatively different ventral wing markings. Species within species groups are discriminated on the basis of characters provided by scent patches in males if known, plus ventral wing markings. Presumably all Annamaria species are easy to identify on the basis of wing shape (with three tails), ventral colouration and pattern in the field and discriminate from taxa with similar ventral wing pattern, e.g. species of Evenus, Macusia KAYE, 1904 (type species: Macusia satyroides HEWITSON, 1865) and Paiwarria (see Discussion). Only females of the nominal taxa draudti, lathyi and ganimedes are known; therefore, the key for identification presented below is partly based upon the male dorsal colouration of known males, extension, presence or absence of the androconia. Males in collections can be easily distinguished by these traits. I believe that wing ventral colouration and pattern are also useful characters and applicable also to females, therefore I built them into the key. Biology - Annamaria species occur in primary forest with high annual precipitation at low to moderate elevation throughout the year. Individuals are rare. 'T. nobilis'" was considered to be scarce (GODMAN & SALVIN 1887: 12). The museum specimens were encountered individually as the material examined reveals, as well as databases with public access in the Internet (e.g. InBio, Costa Rica). The long series from "Muzo, Colombia" present in many European museum collections must originate from dealer stocks, material acquired from indigenous people who farmed the species or know how or where to collect larger samples. The only modern published record of Annamaria behaviour originates from FAYNEL (2001: 54): A. ganimedes was nectaring on Cordia schomburgkii (Boraginaceae). Two A. draudti male specimens have been recently collected by HANS DAHNERS (Cali, Colombia, pers. comm.). The individuals were sitting together 5 cm apart on a broad sun lit leaf of a plant, about one meter above ground level. The site was on a path following the Calima river canyon on the Pacific slope of the Western Cordillera at about 50 m above the river bed and at about 1200 m above sea level. They