ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 97 Budapest, 2005 pp. 115-149. A review of the Neotropical hairstreak genus Annamaria with notes on further genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) ZS. BÁLINT Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-J088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract - The South American lycaenid genus Annamaria D'ABRERA et BÁLINT, 2001 is revised. The nomenclatorical and taxonomic history of the genus is presented. Annamaria D'ABRERA et BÁLINT, 2001 - Lamasina ROBBINS, 2002, new synonym is established. A key for the six species re cognised in three species groups is given on the basis of head, androconia and ventral pattern charac ters: Columbia group: A. Columbia sp. n. (type locality: Colombia, Santa Fé de Bogotá); ganimedes group: A. draudti (LATHY, 1926), A. ganimedes (CRAMER, 1775) and A. lathyi sp. n. (type locality: Peru, Rio Seco); rhaptissima group: A. rhaptissima (JOHNSON, 1991) and A. rhapsodia sp. n. (type locality: Bolivia, Rio Limatambo, appr. 1600 m). Thecla mirabilis LATHY, 1930 = Evenus mirabilis- sima D'ABRERA, 1995 (unnecessary replacement name), new synonym is established. A neotype for Papilio ganimedes CRAMER, 1775 is designated, and the erroneous type locality "Indus Occidentalis" is corrected to "Bas Maroni, Guyane Française" (French Guyana: Bas Maroni). The lectotype for Thecla nobilis HERRICH-SCHÄFFER, 1853 is designated. The combinal taxon Denivia saphonota CONSTANTINO, SALAZAR et JOHNSON, 1993 is transferred to Brevianta JOHNSON, KURSE et KROENLEIN, 1997, comb. n. With 40 figures. Key words - Lycaenidae, Eumaeini, Annamaria, genera, new species, new synonyms, Neotropics. INTRODUCTION The taxon Papilio ganimedes CRAMER, 1775 (Figs 1-2) from "Indus Occi dentalis" represents a group of lycaenid hairstreak butterflies very recently recog nised to belong to the genus Annamaria D'ABRERA et BÁLINT, 2001 (in D'ABRERA 2001).