Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 90. (Budapest 1998)
Bálint, Zs., Johnson, K. ; Austin, G. T.: New species of Eumaeini (Lycaenidae) from Southeastern Brazil II. Review of regional Ministrymon and descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
(male), 2 March 1945 (female), 4 June 1938 (female), 4 June 1936 (female), 2 December 1958 (male), 12 June 1936 (male); one male, Brazil, Guapy 2 June 1936; three specimens: Brazil, Colegio Batista 13 June 1937 (2 males), 14 May 1936 (male); four specimens: Brazil, Jacarepaguá, 4 June 1928 (female), 8 March 1948 (female). 26 July 1934 (female), 2 March 1948 (female); two specimens: Brazil, Gavea, 3 March 1927 (female), 2 March 1946 (female). Remarks - Females of this species are apparent based on similarity of dorsal HW and ventral FW/HW pattern and duplicate label data among specimens from several localities (see Types). Etymology - Patronym for Ms SUSAN BORKIN, collections manager at the MPM. Ministrymon exorbaetus sp. n. (Figs 12, 22) Diagnosis - Wings. Males large (FW 13.5 mm.), recognized by 1) large blackish DFW brands (covering the distal two thirds of the discal cell and surrounded by additional black suffusion in the radial area) and 2) crisply defined dorsal white (on FW in cells CuAl , CuA2 and around the FW tornus), on HW posterioriad of vein Ml extending completely to the outer margin, there broken only by a prominent black spot in cell CuAl. Venter with blocklike markings all large but lacking central colour; rather, expressed only as the prominent grey-brown basal and distal edges of these blocks. Another "una" group species has been described from Rondônia, Brazil (JOHNSON & AUSTIN 1998) with extremely large DFW brands but its brand encompasses the entire discal cell, DFW is completely dark, HW has a wide dark costal and submarginal borders and, on the venter, the blocklike marks are prominent and golden. Morphology. Male genitalia with robust, thickly tapered, saccus and robust valval venter showing wide protruding, basally oriented, triangulate bilobes; aedeagus comparatively elongate and narrow with four discrete bundles of terminal microtrichia, not a row or rows as in other group members. Description - Tailed as typical of genus. Male (Fig. 12). DFW with crisply defined white patches across cells CuAl , CuA2, and around the tornus, rest of FW wing dark brown and with distal two-thirds of FW discal cell showing an elongate fuscous brand surrounded costal ly with black suffusion extending into the radial areas. DHW showing crisply defined white caudad of vein Ml and. cephalad, with white extending completely to outer margin, there with a prominent black spot in cell CuAl. Ventral ground bright white with blocklike markings typical of group but without prominent colour within; rather, expressed as the grey-brown distal and basal endings FW as disjunctive marks in discal cell, along postmedial area, at distal end of discal cell and at center of discal cell. HW blocklike markings prominent in postbasal area, those in medial area expressed only by the more orange distal edges (thus appearing obsolescent). Limbal area concolorous white with vaguely noticeable marginal mark in cell CuAl. Length of FW: 13.5 mm. Female. Unknown. Male genitalia (Fig. 22). Genital capsule elliptic but robust, with saccus particularly robust, tapering thickly toward anterior in two steps; valvae extremely robust in the bilobes, each showing widely protruding, basally oriented, shoulders covered by thick, keel-like, sclerotin. Aedeagus elongate and narrow, shaft quite straight, caecum rather straight and displaced only about 30 from the shaft; hooded ventral terminus of shaft with four discrete bundles of microtrichia.
