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Bálint, Zs. ; Wojtusiak, J.: Jagiello molinopampa gen. et sp. n. from Peru (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 92 Budapest, 2000 pp. 183-191. Jagiello molinopampa gen. et sp. n. from Peru (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) ZS. BÁLINT

1 & J. WOJTUSIAK

2 'Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary e-mail: balint@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu 'Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology Jagiellonian University, PL-30060 Krakow, Ingardena 6, Poland e-mail: wojt@zuk.iz.uj.edu.pl BÁLINT, ZS. & WOJTUSIAK, J. (2000): Jagiello molinopampa gen. et sp. n. from Peru (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 92: 183-191. Abstract - Jagiello gen. n. a new Eumaeiti lycaenid genus is described with the type species Jagiello molinopampa sp. n. (type locality: NE Peru, dept. Amazonas, Molinopampa). The phylogenetic relationships of the new genus and its type species are discussed. With 14 figures. INTRODUCTION An expedition was earned out by the junior author with his postgraduate student Dr. TOMASZ PYRCZ to study the diversity of Pronophilini butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) in montane forests of NE Peru in 1997. Amongst the material they sampled there were three specimens of a unique, putatively undescribed lycaenid taxon. One of the specimens was carried to London by the junior author in March 1998 where the authors of the present paper had met in the Natural History Museum. The uniqueness of the specimen had been immediately confirmed by the senior author. The entire lycaenid material of the Polish Pronophilini expedition taken in Peru was later examined by the senior author in Krakow in 1998, where another unique lycaenid specimen, a female, was found and associated with three males previously recognized as belonging to an undescribed species. During comparative studies completed in Budapest it became evident that the species in question cannot be placed in any known neotropical Eumaeiti genus, not only because of distinct characters like peculiar wingshape and ventral hindwing markings, but also on the grounds of differences in genital morphology. Contrary