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)

group members. However, the ventral ground colour is not grey-green in the specimen, but pale grey and the fore wing costal length is 22.5 mm. I exclude that this specimen might represent the female of rhaptissima, and even I do not agree with the statement of ROBBINS mentioned above that the female ventral pattern of rhaptissima is so divergent from the male. My reasons are (1): The ventral pattern and colouration in all the taxa I place in the monophyly of Mithrasiti (see Discussion) are qualitatively identical in both of the sexes. (2) The eye orbit is white in A. Columbia whilst it is structural green in A. rhaptissima. I am not aware about such kind of sexual dimorphism among large eumaeines. (3) The specimen is the largest one I know, so I guess that its male should have the same size representing the largest Annamária species, as all specimens of congeneric taxa I have examined, including A. rhaptissima, possess shorter fore wing length. Annamaria rhapsodia sp. n. (Figs 6-7, 26,31) Type material - Holotype male, in moderate condition, wings worn with slightly damaged margin, legs glued to a separate piece of paper, abdomen missing (dissected) labelled as ( 1 ) "Bolivia, Rio Limatambo, appr. 1600 m, 14.VIII.2000, leg. T. Pyrcz.", (2) "gen. Prep. No. 1065", (3) "Holotype, Annamaria rhapsodia, Bálint sp. n., 2002.1.7." (hand written); at present deposited in MZJU. Dissection: HNHM BÁLINT gen. prep no. 1070. Diagnosis - Similar to A. rhaptissima, but male dorsal ground colour is bright violet blue (similar to the ganimedes group dorsal male ground), and not bright azure. The fore wing postdiscal scent patches are much more extended and can be found also along the anal branch of the cubital vein in the erections of veins 1A+2A and CuA2. There is a large additional scent patch in the basal part of the dorsal hind wing cell C, which is missing in A. rhaptissima. Hind wing ventral pattern is similar to A. rhaptissima, but the submedian black blotch in cell CuA2 is much larger. Description - Male. Head: Labial palpus very short, bright blue green black, vertex bright blue. Eye hairy. Antennái segments black with white scalings at base, club black. Thorax: dorsally bright azure blue, ventrally deep bright blue. Wings. Shape: Fore wing costal and distal margins slightly convex, apical part flat, anal margin straight. Apex slightly pointed, tornus rounded. Length from base (erection of cubital vein) to apex (vein Cu5 terminus): 21 mm. Hind wing costal margin highly convex, distal margin undulate having slightly extended vein termini. Veins Cul, Cu2 and 1A+2A termini extended with tails, tornus lobate as anal margin almost touching vein 2A in tornai area. Colouration and pattern: Fore wing dorsal ground colour bright blue with tinted blue hint in medial and distal areas, bright azure blue in basal and in medial areas in dorsal aspect (laterally it changes indicating a strong structural blue colour). Margin with thin black border, ciliae basally black distally white. Hind wing dorsum similarly coloured and ciliated to that of fore wing, but with marginal area in tornus bright sky blue distally and black basally and marginally. Fore wing ventrum gleaming sil-