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Bálint, Zs. ; Benyamini, D.: Taxonomic notes, faunistics and species descriptions of the austral South American polyommatine lycaenid genus Pseudolucia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): the chilensis and collina species-groups

Institutional acronyms are given parenthetically as follows: AME: Allyn Museum of Entomology, Sarasota (USA); AMNH: American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA); BMNH: The Natural History Museum, London (United Kingdom); CUC: Concepción University Collection (Chile); FMC = Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA; HNHM: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (Hungary); IMS: Instituto de Molina, Santiago (Chile); MHNS: Musco Nációnál de História Natural, Santiago (Chile); MHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France); NRS: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm (Sweden); USNM: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USA); ZMUC: Zoologisk Museum, Universitets Copenhagen, (Denmark). GENUS PSEUDOLUCIA NABOKOV, 1945 The genus Pseudolucia was erected by NABOKOV with type species Lycaena chilensis BLANCHARD, 1852 and including a second species, Lycaena collina PHILIPP!, 1859 (NABOKOV 1945). The genus was then by and large forgotten, with subsequent synoptic papers, such as DESCIMON (1986) and ETSCHEVERRY (1989), not even mentioning it. Finally, in the last decade of the 20th century, old and new material representing the genus was accumulated and the genus became the focus of significant lepidopterological research (see BÁLINT & JOHNSON 1995c: 212-216). However, subsequent efforts by the present authors have amassed even more historical and new material of Pseudolucia (Table 1) and these data point to still more substantial discoveries regarding this diverse genus. The subject of the present paper regards two of the five species groups now recognized in the genus. A brief general overview of Pseudolucia is first given below. The monophyly of Pseudolucia is based on the following consilience of characters: Female genital ductus bursae eversible, ostia mebranous with sclerotized parts or heavily sclerotized with a central tubular structure. Although a long eversible ductus bursae can also be generally observed in some taxa of two other polyommatine sections, the sections Eichochrysops (sensu ELIOT 1973: 448) and Nabokovia (BÁLINT & JOHNSON 1997: 24), there it is considerably wider with a uniquely shaped anterior lamella (in Eichochrysops) or thin and very long with a simple tubular ostium (in Nabokovia). Table 1. Historical overview of material examined by NABOKOV (1945), BÁLINT (1993), new HNHM material and coll. BENYAMINI NABOKOV BÁLINT HNHM coll. BENYAMINI number of taxa 2 8 28 37 number of individuals 6 191 229 631 + 376