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)
tween veins Cu2 and 2A with trapezoidal scent patch (Fig. 27). Legs: Generally femur bright green, tibia and tarsus black with white rings, spots or stripes; fore leg femur and tibia, and coxa and tarsus approximately with same length, tibia with a pair of brown apical spurs, tarsus with long sets of lateral puvillae and a pair of apical claw. Abdomen: dorsally bright azure blue, ventrally grey. Copulatory organ as in A. draudti (Fig. 33). Female. Similar to male in wing shape and ventral pattern, without androconia, and with dorsal violet bright azure blue colouration (but with violet blue scales to basal and subbasal area). Medial and marginal area smokey brown or brown. Wing ventra as in male. Distribution - Geographical: Recorded only from Ecuador ("Esmeraldas" and "Macas") and Peru ("Jepeleico" and "Rio Saco"). Spatial: The single known female specimen has been recorded from the relatively high elevation 2750 m (obviously a hilltopping individual; the males were recorded much lower (700-900 m)). Temporal: specimens have been taken in February, August, September and December. Etymology - The species is dedicated to the memory of PERCY LATHY ( 1870-1943), who segregated the MNHN type material as "Thecla draudti, Pérou". Annamaria Columbia sp. n. (Figs 21-22, 38) Thecla sp. -D'ABRERA 1995: 1127, figs "T. ? sp. ? R" and "T. ? sp. ?V". Type material - BMNH 266855 holotype female, labelled as "Santa Fé [/] de Bogotá." (white paper, printed); "Rothschild [/] Bequest [/] B.M. 1939-1." (white paper, printed); "BMNH # 266855 (white paper, printed); "B.M. (N.H.) [/] Rhopalocera [/] vial number /5827" (handwritten, black ink; white paper, printed in red); "BÁLINT 11 [/] 28A-68" (white paper, handwritten). It is in modertae condition: right antenna broken, and the tails are broken at left hind wing vein terminus 1A+2A, plus at all the right hind wing vein CuAl , CuA2 and 1A+2A. The abdomen is dissected and placed in glycerin vial curated separately in the BMNH vial collection. Dissection: BMNH vial no. 5827 (holotype female). Diagnosis - There is no similar species in the genus. It is reminiscent to non-congeneric Laothus viridicans (FELDER et FELDER, 1865) BÁLINT, 2002 and its relatives, but dorsal wing ground colour lighter with longer fore wing outer margin, hind wing vein Cul terminus tailed and ventral fore wing medial line joins the submedial line at tornus. The wing shape of A. Columbia is "wide". In contrary, the wing anal margin of all Laothus species is longer than the distal margin, what results an "expanded" shape, they possess a doubled submarginal line, and the median transverse line runs to the medial part of the costa, not to the tornai area. Moreover, the terminus of hind wing vein CuAl lacks the filamentous tail in all Laothus species.
