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)

Ministrymon borkini n. sp. (Figs 10-1 1, 21, 29) Diagnosis - Wings. DFW grey-brown with discrete, ellipsoid (1x1.5 mm) brand (brownish-black but fading to white when worn). M. androgenus has a large (3-4 mm) suffusive black ovate patch covering the discal area, obscuring a small (1.5 mm) brand beneath. M. borkini with VFW white restricted, occurring basad of the costal vein of the discal cell and with a narrower (1 mm) submarginal border; VHW with all beige elements of generally equal size and, on FW, the postmedial elements fused into a beige postmedial band. Female dorsum showing white on both wings, FW with wide (postmedial and distad) brown border and wingbase strewn with iridescent blue; HW with white occurring basad of the costa vein of the discal cell and distad to a narrow ( 1 mm) submarginal border. Morphology. Male genital valvae, in ventral view, with rather rhomboidshaped bilobes but, being rather transparent, curving dorsally about so as to form rather "ductlike" appearance; otherwise with caudal extension elongate and narrow, saccus robust and spikelike, length a little more than one-half that of valvae; dorsum of aedeagus at terminus with arc of minute microtrichial bundles. Female genitalia robust with ductus bursae fluted gradually to an arrowhead shaped terminus. Description - Tailed as typical of genus. Male (Fig. 11). DFW brown except for white along the inner margin, discal area with small, discrete, ellipsoid (1x1.5 mm) brand (brownish-black fading to white when worn). DHW white to dirty white surrounded by a narrow (1 mm) grey-brown border extending in general even contour about the wing and, along costa, a wide, dark and crisply brown, margin extending from the costal vein of discal cell; outer margin with black spots in nearly ever cell, those of cells CuAl and CuA2 most prominent. Ventral ground whitish with beige (to more brownish on worn specimens) blotched and dash-like elements, on FW postmedial marks fused into a beige postmedial spotband paralleled in the submarginal by suffusive beige marks in each cell; HW with all beige blotches prominent and of about equal size, forming prominent medial spot band across entire wing and paralleled in the submargin by dark suffusive beige marks in each cell; limbal area with a prominent blackish spots in cell CuAl and at the anal margin. Length of FW: 10-12 mm. Female (Fig. 12). Similar to male except on DFW (where male brand is lacking), DHW with prominent brown costal border as typical of the species. Length of FW: 10-12 mm. Male genitalia (Fig. 21). Valvae in ventral view with rather rhomboid-shaped bilobes but, being rather transparent, curving dorsally about so as to form rather "ductlike" appearance; otherwise with caudal extension elongate and narrow, saccus robust and spikelike, length a little more than one-half that of valvae; aedeagus elongate, exceeding rest of genitalia by slightly more than caecum length, caecum displaced some 45° from plane of shaft, dorsum of aedeagus terminus with arc of minute microtrichial bundles. Female genitalia (Fig. 29). Ductus bursae robust, fluted gradually to arrowhead shaped terminus, latter formed by prominent superior plate; cervix bursae flap prominent and oblongate but of uneven contour, dorsum of cervix bursae leading to ductus seminalis not prominent. Types - Holotype male, Brazil, Gavea, 2 December 1928; allotype female, Independencia, Petrópolis, 8 May 1938; both deposited MPM. Paratypes. HMHN: one female, Brazil, Independencia, 10 August 1936. AMNH: one female, Brazil, Rio [dc Janeiro], 14 June 1936. MPM: five specimens: Brazil, Independencia, 900 m., 5 May 1938 (two males, one female), 26 March 1937 (male, female), 10 Aug. 1936 (male); seven specimens: Brazil, Rio, 2 July 1934 (male). 12 March 1933