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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 androgenus sp. n. (Figs 8-9, 20, 28) Diagnosis - Wings. This species is similar only to M. borkini (described below); males might superficially be identified as females of this latter species. The DFW of fresh males of M. androgenus shows a large (3-4 mm) ovate blackish-brown suffusive patch not readily idenitified as a scent brand; with wear a small ovate ( 1

.5 mm) ellipsoid brand is evident. Fresh males of M. borkini show a distinctively black, ellipsoid (1x1.5 mm) ellipsoid brand over brown ground colour and females a suffusive patch similar to the males of M. androgenus. The DHW of M. androgenus is white with a 1-2 mm greybrown border extending in general even contour about the wing; on M. borkini the VFW white is more restricted, occurring basad of the costa vein of the discal cell and with a narrower ( 1 mm) submarginal border. On the VHW, the block-like marks on M. androgenus are diminutive, on M. borkini pronounced; on the distal VFW all spots on M. androgenus are disjunctive, on M. borkini the postmedial ones form a band. Females of M. androgenus differ from M. borkini by the ventral specific characters and lack of the wide, crisp dark brown, margin occurring along the DHW costa in M. borkini. Morphology. Male genitalia with distinctive oblongate and asymmetrical saccus, as well as distinctive quadraspherical ventral shape to the valval bilobed. Female genitalia extremely robust and squat compared to congeners; ductus bursae a short tube, fluting gradually to prominent, spade-shaped, lamellae; cervix bursae at ductus seminalis particularly produced. Description - Tailed as typical of genus. Male (Fig. 8). DFW brown except for iridescent blue strewn along the inner margin, large ovate area (3-4 mm) of FW discal area covered by darker brown suffusion, this area showing a small (1.5 mm) whitish scent brand when rubbed. DHW dirty white surrounded by a 1-2 mm grey-brown border extending in general even contour about the wing; margin with black spots in cells CuAl and CuA2. Ventral ground whitish with beige (to more brownish on worn specimens) blotched and dash-like elements, on FW as disjunctive marks in discal cell, at cell-end and spaced irregularly along the postmedial area to the costa; base of FW suffused grey. HW with beige blotch prominent only in the medial area at the costa, other beige elements in the cells across medial and postbasal areas small and obsolescent. Margin with slight beige crescents in each cell and prominent black spots at cells CuAl and CuA2. Length of FW: 1113 mm. Female (Fig. 9). Similar to male except on DFW (where the black suffusion characterizing the male brand is lacking and, instead, the brown subapical border arches around the discal cell). Male genitalia (Fig. 20). Genital capsule rather square, terminating in a pronounced, oblongate and asymmetrical saccus. Valvae bilobes forming a notably quadraspherical base, the bilobe of each valve with a sharp shoulder; caudal extensions elongate and narrowly tapered. Aedeagus robust with prominent caecum displaced some 45 from the shaft, shaft straight with fluted terminus, latter showing an arch of minute microtrichia across its hoodlike venter. Female genitalia (Fig. 28). Ductus bursae extremely robust and squat compared to congeners, a short, rather Hat, tube fluting gradually to prominent, spade-shaped, lamellae; cervix bursae flap prominent, oblongate and of uneven contour, dorsal juncture with ductus seminalis heavily sclerotized and produced, with lateral areas connected to prominent flaps of heavily sclerotized tissue. Types - Holotype male, Brazil, Gavea, 2 Dec. 1928, FW 12.0 mm; allotype female, Brazil, Rio, 26 July 1934, FW 12.0 mm; both deposited MPM. Paratypes. HMNH: one male, Brazil, Rio