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)
Description - Female: Head: Labial palpus very short, black, vertex bright green. Eye hairy. Antennái segments black with white scalings at base, club black. Thorax: dorsally bright green, ventrally deeper green and brown. Wings: Fore wing costal and distal margins slightly convex, apical part flat, anal margin straight. Length from base (erection of cubital vein) to apex (vein Cu5 terminus): 22.5 mm. Hind wing costal margin convex, distal margin undulate having slightly extended vein termini at veins Cul, CuA2 and 1A+2A, tornus lobate as anal margin almost touching vein 2A in tornai area. Colouration and pattern: Fore wing dorsal ground colour bright green with extended black costal and distal border, ciliae basally black, distally white. Hind wing dorsum similarly coloured and ciliated to that of fore wing but with narrow (<lmm) marginal border and whitish blue line in tornus. Fore wing ventrum unicolourous dove grey with white median and submedian line converging in tornai area, submarginal and antemarginal area with white shade, outer magin brown; hind wing pattern with median and submedian white line running to the large red black eyed "Thecla spot" CuA2 and 1A+2A in intercellular area, submarginal area deeper brown with white submarginal and antemarginal shade, outer margin darker brown, tornus with black submarginal and antemarginal strip, anal flap with two narrow white lines. Legs: generally femur, tibia and tarsus bright green. Abdomen: Dorsally bright blue ventrally grey. Copulatory organ: as in A. draudti (Fig. 38). Male. Unknown (see Remarks). Distribution - Geographical: Recorded only from the type locality. There is no spatial and temporal data. Etymology - Noun, gender feminin, in use to signify the country of origin (Columbia = Colombia), but it is also a reference to the pigmental coloration of the wing ventral ground colour (cokimba — dove). Remarks - Original curation: The holotype specimen was curated by FREDERICK W. GOODSON, who was an authority in neotropical hairstreaks (Thecla s. I.) (BÁLINT 2005) as an unknown species in the drawer, that contained various species of the genus Laothus JOHNSON, KRUSE et KROENLEIN, 1997 (type species: Thecla barajo REAKIRT, 1867) and Balintus D'ABRERA, 2001 (type species: Thecla tityrus FELDER et FELDER, 1865). The individual taxon has been mentioned as an undescribed species closely related to "Thecla viridicans" in the manuscript book of GOODSON. Qualitatively different wing shape (distal and anal wing margin ratio c. 1 : 1, hind wing vein terminus CuA 1 tailed) and ventral wing pattern (fore wing white transverse medial line missing) indicated that the original curation of the specimen documented by D'ABRERA (1995) was erroneous. Indeed, superficially A. Columbia holotype is most resembling to the species Balintus tityrus. The remarkable phenotypic differences between Balintus specimens and the holotype are: (1) somewhat larger size of A. Columbia, (2) the tailed hind wing vein CuAl terminus of A. Columbia and (3) the missing ventral hind wing white basal line of A. Columbia. The genital configurations differ even more remarkably as the examined material testified (BMNH vial nos 5825 (B. tityrus female, Bolivia) and 5862 (L. viridicans female, Colombia).
