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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)

Ministrymon gagarini sp. n. (Figs 2-3, 17, 26) Diagnosis - Wings. Readily recognized by parallel postbasal and medial VHW bands which are narrow, undulate, and red over a brown-tan ground and, on dorsum, contrasting black and azure grounds (all "phrutus''''-like characteristics). Sympatric congeners of the "phrutus" group show either 1 ) VHW bands clustered into a red patch in the postbasal area contrasting distal white ground (M. cruor) or 2) wider, lavishly edged, red VHW bands (M. exorbetus). The latter species also has gigantic DFW brands on males, encompassing nearly all the discal cell (M. gagarini a small, 1-2 mm, black brand near the cell-end). Morphology. Females exhibit an elongate ductus bursae curvate in the anterior one-third (latter is typical of species group but, among group taxa, the ductus in M. gagarini is far more elongate, e.g. @ x2 compared to M. phrutus). Males show the laterally lobate valval bilobes typical of the species group but these are sharply contoured, and with the valve bilobes lateral lobes more posteriorly directed than in M. phrutus and the Saccus in the latter species is far shorter. See Remarks. Description - Tailed as typical of genus. Male. Fig. 2. DFW brownish black with small ovate black brand at distal end of discal cell; DHW with silvery blue occurring in prominent, rather ovate, patch covering anal two-thirds of wing, with remaining distal areas brownish black; marginad in the silvery blue patch is a prominent black dot in cell CuAl. VFW with smoky brown ground becoming much paler across the apex, pattern markings including a red-brown dash-like mark at the end of the discal cell and red-brown spots forming various resemblances of a postmedial band, depending on the specimen. VHW with suffusive tan and brown ground crossed by two narrow, undulate but continuous, blood-red bands, the areas between the bands being darker smoky tan; distal area of HW with blood-red postmcdial dash near costa, paler red-brown marks in each cell, and a dark reddish black "Thecla-spot"

. FW length: 9-13 mm. Female (Fig. 3). Similar to male but, on dorsum, lacking FW brand and with DHW with brownish black submarginal borders framing extensive silvery blue patch, the dark border indenting the silvery blue notably in cell M3 and with a prominent black spot marginad in cell CuAl. Venter similar to male. FW length: 9-1 3 mm. Male genitalia (Fig. 17). Marked by elongate saccus and valvae (each about equal length), former terminating rather elliptic genital capsule, latter terminating bilobes which show laterally produced flaps. Aedeagus elongate, exceeding rest of genitalia by more than caecum length; shaft broadly curvate, caecum short and displaced some 60° out of the plane of the shaft; shaft terminus without dorsal microlrichial bundles. Female genitalia (Fig. 26). Ductus bursae elongate (length to lOx maximal width), posterior with paired elliptic lamellae and slight development of a laterally overlapping superior plate; anterior one-third slightly curvate. cervix bursae flap oblongate, area adjacent ductus seminalis unelaborate. Types - Holotype male, MPM, Brazil, Gavea, 30 Aug. 1931, FW 10.0 mm; allotype female, Brazil, Teatu, 30 June 1931, FW 9.5 mm, both deposited MPM. Paratypes. HMNH: one male, Brazil, Rio, 19 May 1955; one female, data as on allotype. AMNH: one male, Brazil, Mundo Novo, 200 m., 5 May 1940; one female Rio [de Janeiro], 10 July 1931. MPM: fourteen specimens, all Brazil, with labels conforming to the data of appendix 1 as follows: Independencia, Gavea (3), Teatu (2), Morro Dona Marta (2), Guapy, Rio (5 [1 "Rio/ Castorina", 2 "Rio de Janeiro", 2 "Rio"]).