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recent material reveals that P. charlotte indeed occurs in the territory of present day Chile (as well as in Argentina). According to the original description, Pseudolucia charlotte was described on the basis of the AMNH holotype male from Valle de las Lenas, province Mendoza, Argentina collected by A. M. Shapiro, and the allotype female and five male and three female paratype specimens all from Pucará (Prov. Neuquén, Argentina), originating from various institutes and museums. The published diagnosis of P. charlotte, completed in Budapest, was based solely on representatives provided through the mail from Pucará, two of them figured on the photoplate of the original paper as Fig. "Q (m)" (male dorsum and ventrum) and "R (f)" (female ventrum and dorsum) but without any indication to their type status. Subsequently, in recurating all the material available, it was discovered that the holotype data given in the original description was inadvertently in error. The data published for the holotype was not represented on any specimen the authors had investigated; the diagnosis and the description of the specimen clearly match the populations of the taxon found in Neuquén Province, bordering Araucania region of Chile; and, accordingly, the locality cited as the source of the type is not within the actual range of the taxon. Consultation with a number of taxonomists confirms our view that, according to the Code, the figured and described holotype of P. charlotte is a valid holotype; also, the taxon itself is unambiguous. However, the type locality needs to be corrected according to ICZN Article 76., Recommendation 76A.2. Accordingly, we hereby restrict the type locality of P. charlotte to a locality from which the species is well known: as represented by specimens deposited in the HNHM, labelled as follows: "Vn Villarica, 1407 m, // 28.12.1999., (Refugio) // IX Reg. Araucania, Chile, Leg. Dubi Benyamini" (white paper, printed), "Hung. Nat. Hist. Mus. // coll. Lepidoptera // 2001 - Ml don. Dubi Benyamini" (white paper, printed). This restriction was further advised because as more material became available it turned out that P. charlotte and a sister species, P. lanin, comprise a taxonomically isolated sister pair within the genus. Moreover, P. lanin and P. charlotte appear to be sympatic and synchronic in certain localities; therfore the clear identities of these taxa have needed to be established. Acknowledgements — We thank the late Luis Pena Guzman, who made his unidentified Lycaenid material available for further study and the trustees of the Field Museum of Natural History, who allowed us to examine the Pena collection there. We also acknowledge Mr. Alfredo Ugarte (Santiago, Chile), who continues to supply the authors with additional samples from remote areas of the Andean region. We thank Dr. Frederick H. Rindge and Eric Quinter (American Museum of Natural History, New York) for their advice concerning elements of the ICZN Code.