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)

Non-type material (6 male specimens in total): ECUADOR: Marcapata, Caradoc, 4000 feet (BMNH: male, specimen figured as "£. miribilissima,, by D'ABRERA 1995: 1109); Rio Seco, VII.

28, 950 m, Klug (MNHN: male). PERU: "Chanchamayo", IV. 1961, leg. F. König" (NMW: male); Jorge Chavez, 1400 m, Amazonas, 1.2003. (CB: male); ditto VIII.2003 (CB: male). Identification - The specimens can be discriminated by the characters mentioned in the key (see above) from its presumed sister species A. rhapsodia. The female is unknown (see Remarks). Nomenclature and taxonomy - Thecla mirabilis was described on the basis of a single male individual from the FOURNIER collection of the MNHN, subsequently documented by LATHY (1930) and JOHNSON (1991). This unique specimen is a holotype. JOHNSON proposed the replacement name rhaptissima as Thecla mirabilis turned to be a preoccupied name. D'ABRERA (1995) was not aware of JOHNSON'S action, therefore his replacement name mirabilissima is unnecessary, and a new synonym as it was not formalized in any previous publication. Biology - SALAZAR (1993) and SCHMIDT-MUMM et al. (2003) recorded the occurrence of the species from Ecuador in a region (now natural reserve) covered by primary forest. No further data is available. Specimens were known to be collected in January, April, July and August. Distribution - Known only from the eastern side of the Andes in Colombia (El Nariho) in Ecuador (Marcapata, Planada, Rivers Pastazza and Seco) and in Peru (Chanchamayo). Spatial: Recorded from the elevations 900 m (Colombia: Nariho), 950 m (Ecuador: River Seco), 1500 m (Ecuador: Marcapata), and 1700 m (Ecuador: Planada). Remarks - Material examined: The male MNHN non-type specimen was collected by GUILLERMO KLUG, who was active in the Upper Amazonas region (HORN et al. 1990: 206). The specimen was sent to Madame FOURNIER as "Neue Thecla". This individual was not mentioned by LATHY, therefore it is certain that it was incorporated into the FOURNIER collection after 1930. The NMW male specimen was misidentified as "T. draudti'. The female phenotype: ROBBINS (2004: 275) remarks that the female of "Lamasina rhaptissima" possesses some characters of Phothecla ROBBINS, 2004 (type species: Thecla photismos H. H. DRUCE, 1907), like (1) "ventral ground colour gray-green" and (2) "ventral forewing median and postmedian white lines cross the wing "smoothly" from the costa to the inner margin". I have examined and dissected the individual specimen marked by F. W. GOODSON in the BMNH collection (BÁLINT 2005) as an undescribed species superficially close to Laothus viridicans (FELDER et FELDER, 1865) documented as "T. ? sp." by D'ABRERA (1995: 1127). The dissected genitalia prove that the individual represents the genus Annamaria. The structures are hardly different from the known ones of the draudti