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)

nominal taxon saphonota is erroneous as I characterise Denivia females as having strongly sclerotized bipartite ductus bursae with asymmetrical terminal plates, often bristled. Moreover, male Denivia possess a deep ventral hind wing pouch (BÁLINT & MOSER, in prep.). The discoverer of saphonota remarked that the newly described species probably belongs also to the Muellerian mimicry ring long-recognized for Theorema sapho (STAUDINGER, 1888), which is probably a human artefact (KASSAROV 2004), but indicative for species groups or in a given monophyly where it is displayed. ROBBINS (2002, 2004) placed D. saphonota in his "Lamasina

" without any supportive text. The only clue that I could ascertain concerning his transfer of D. saphonota to another genus is the dorsal green colouration, which resembles to the supposed female of A. rhaptissima or the newly described A. Columbia (see above). However, that green is not unique in the tribe and the original documentation of the saphonota female genital structures, wing shape with lacking tail at vein Cul terminus and qualitatively distinctive pattern contradicts the placement by ROBBINS. The nominal taxon saphonota, whose male is unknown to me belongs to another lineage. The transverse white dorsal fore wing stripe (as in sapho) and the identical gleaming ventral hind wing pattern of the female could support the placement in Theorema HEWITSON, 1865 (type species Theorema eumaenia HEWITSON, 1865). Moreover, the holotype female and another the recently collected female individual (Figs 23-24) suggests that this taxon actually belongs to the lineage of the genus Brevianta JOHNSON, KRUSE et KROENLEIN, 1997 (type species: Thecla undulata HEWITSON, 1867). This placement is fully supported by the followings: (1) the shape, dorsal colouration and pattern of the wings and (2) the membranous large and wide female genital ductus bursae (cf. vial preparations of BMNH 5831 (B. busa) and BMNH 5832 (B. undulata). Consequently, I introduce the new combination Brevianta saphonota (CONSTANTINO, SALAZAR et JOHNSON, 1993), BÁLINT 2005, comb. n. Notes on Theorema STAUDINGER (1888: 289) described Micandra sapho on the basis of a single female specimen (= holotype) originated from Colombia (Rio San Juan). DRAUDT (1919: 756) mentioned that sapho is probably a Theorema species. This combination appeared in BRIDGES (1988:11.110), who gave two sources of it: the compilation-list of COMSTOCK & HUNTINGTON (1959-1964) and an unpublished document of JOHNSON (BRIDGES 1988: IV.

53). The nominal taxon sapho was formally transferred to Theorema by SALAZAR (1993), who identified the male phenotype and associated it with the only known female (CONSTANTINO et al. 1993). The