Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 94. (Budapest 2002)

Bálint, Zs.: Miscellaneous notes on Arcas Swainson, 1832 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Eumaeini)

splendor but did not figure. This specimen, which I have examined in the BMNH does not possess any label, but D'ABRERA stated that its origin was Colombia. I document here for the first time the holotype of Thecla splendor databased as Lepidoptera Type No. 3435 in HCOU (Figs 24-26). The second line of the original locality label was not cited by DRUCE, nor was it mentioned by NlCOLAY. This is the line "prob. nr. Bogota" (Fig. 26), which indicates that the specimen probably originated from the environs of Bogotá. Therefore, if the type locality of splendor is Bogotá, the following problem emerges. Recently two large Areas species were discovered in the Colombian Andes with distinctive androconial patches when compared to Areas splendor sensu NlCOLAY from Panama. The two Colombian taxa are close in wing colouration and pattern to the holotype of Thecla splendor. If Thecla splendor's, type locality is Bogotá, most probably one of the recently described Areas species is a junior synonym of Th. splendor and, in fact, the male of A. splendor was described after its original naming almost ninety years later by SALAZAR & CONSTANTINO - either as A. nicolayi (SALAZAR & CONSTANTINO 1995a: 125) or A. lecromi (SALAZAR & CONSTANTINO 1995a: 458). The holotype male of Areas nicolayi originates from Departamento Risaralda, San Antonio del Chami, 1800 m, from the Pacific side of the Western Cordilleras. The worn male specimen figured by D'ABRERA (1995: 1105) as "A. splendor S R" strongly resembles Areas nicolayi (Figs 27-28). The holotype male of Areas lecromi originates from the Central Cordillera, also from Departamento Risaralda, Rio Consota, 1600 m. The holotype was not figured in the original paper but, subsequently, the photos of the male specimens from Caldas, figured as paratype males by SALAZAR & CONSTANTINO (1995a: 461, Fig. lb, d), were reproduced as "holotype male" (dorsum and ventrum of different specimens) in [JOHNSON] (1997, Photoplate XVIII, Figs a-b). The HNHM possesses a male Areas specimen (Figs 29-30) which was sent as A. lecromi by JULIAN SALAZAR. This specimen resembles the holotype of Areas nicolayi rather than the types of A. lecromi, having a conspicuous median band on the forewing ventrum broken at vein Ml reaching the costa. The paratype male of Areas lecromi figured by SALAZAR & CONSTANTINO (1995a: Fig. Id) has no ventral median band of the forewing in the cells R2, R3 and R5. If the specimens considered to be Areas splendor by NlCOLAY represent a different species, possessing a distinctively tear-shaped male androconial cluster on the forewing dorsum (see NlCOLAY 1971: Figs 9 and 10c), this taxon then needs a replacement name because the specimens are not typical A. splendor. I could not locate any "splendor" material from Mesoamerica; therefore I cannot solve the problem completely in the present paper.