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Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part VII. a Distinctive Lamprospilus Species from the Guiana Highlands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae)

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Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part VII. a Distinctive Lamprospilus Species from the Guiana Highlands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae) Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 2019, 50(2): 111–128 Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part VII. A distinctive Lamprospilus species from the Guiana Highlands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae) 1 2 3 4 5 6 M. COSTA , Á.L. VILORIA , S. ATTAL , M. BENMESBAH , S. FRATELLO & Zs. BÁLINT 1Mauro Costa, Res. Las Cumbres, Av. Las Acacias, La Florida, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela, Email: [email protected] 2Ángel L. Viloria, Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apartado Postal 20632, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela. Email: [email protected] 3Stéphane Attal, 5-15 rue Olivier-Noyer, 75014 Paris, France. Email: stephane.attal@wanadoo fr 4Mohamed Benmesbah, Impasse du Loudet, villa 3, F-31770 Colomiers, France Email: [email protected] 5Steve Fratello, 11 First St, W. Islip, NY 11795, USA. Email: [email protected] ny.us 6 Zsolt Bálint, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology,H-1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary. Email: balint.zsolt@nhmus hu Abstract. Lamprospilus ayawi sp. nov. (Lycaenidae, Theclinae), whose male possesses distinctive transparent wing patches, is described from the Guiana Highlands of South America, on the basis of six males and five females from Venezuela (Auyán and Sororopán Tepuis) and one male from Guyana (Acarai Mts.). Resumen. Lamprospilus ayawi sp. nov. (Lycaenidae, Theclinae), cuyo macho presenta porciones transparentes distintivas en las alas, se describe de las Tierras Altas del Escudo Guayanés en Suramérica, sobre la base de seis machos y cinco hembras de Venezuela (Auyán y Sororopán Tepui) y de un macho de Guyana (Montes Acarai). Keywords. Calycopidina, Eumaeini, hyaline wing surface, Neotropical, sexual dimorphism. INTRODUCTION adjoining northwestern Guyana and adjacent Bra- zil, the Guiana Highlands proper are the predo- he Guiana Shield is a geological formation, minant mountainous region of the Guiana High- T presumed very ancient Precambrian basement lands and manifest by far its highest elevation (up rock, that underlies a large region of northern to nearly 3000m). The dominant physiographical South America: south and southeastern Venezuela, feature of this region is the numerous tepuis, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and adjacent many being sheer-sided table mountains com- areas of Brazil and Colombia. The Guiana posed of sedimentary rock. Auyán Tepui is an Highlands (used here strictly in a physiographic impressive quintessential table mountain, a simply sense) includes all the uplands of the Guiana stupendous landform, rising high above its sur- Shield and can be divided into three areas: the roundings (from 500 m to 2,450 m) and with an Guiana Highlands proper, the Tumucumaque immense summit plateau of 667 km². Sororopán Uplands and the Chiribiquete Plateau (cf. Rull et Tepui, a much smaller mountain compared to al. 2019). The latter area is in Colombia on the Auyán Tepui, is part of the Ptarí Massif and is western edge of the Guiana Shield and outside the located at the west end of the Sierra de Lema; scope of this manuscript. Encompassing all the densely covered by forest, it consists of a 10 km highlands of southern and southeastern Venezuela, slightly inclined ridge (from the base at1400 m to _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ urn: lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F3C1D1EB-F9CF-4284-A55E-08CE69720102 published: 09 August 2019 HU ISSN 2063-1588 (online), HU ISSN 0237-5419 (print) http://dx.doi.org/10.18348/opzool.2019.2.111 Costa et al.: Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part VII the top at 2050 m) with a steep wall only on its pical checklist, Robbins (2004) recognized a southern face. The Pantepui is a biogeographic “Lamprospilus section” with seven genera, plac- province (Costa et al. 2014b, Morrone 2014, 2017) ing therein 157 species; 35 of these were re- and comprises the biota above approximately marked as unnamed, bearing the epithet “[n. sp.] 1,000 m of the Guiana Highlands proper. Known Robbins, MS”. Subsequently, this section has for its high endemicity among numerous biotic been revised and named as subtribe Calycopidina groups, a team of lepidopterists has been involved by Duarte & Robbins (2010), now constituting ten in the exploration and the study of the Lepi- genera. As they stressed, the most remarkable doptera of the Pantepui; the work is still ongoing character of the members of this subtribe is their (Costa et al. 2014a, 2014b, 2016, 2017, 2018, larval detritivory. 2019). One of the calycopidine genera is Lamprospi- The Tumucumaque Uplands includes the up- lus, a poorly known genus established by mono- lands of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname typy. This genus-group name has traditionally and French Guiana) and adjacent Brazil, and also been associated with species possessing large the mountains of central Suriname. These ranges hyaline or white patches (cf. Draudt 1920, Lathy are predominantly east-west oriented, largely 1932), but D’Abrera (1995) widened the concept, composed of metamorphic/igneous rocks and with combining many names conditionally with Lam- the highest elevation in this region close to 1300 prospilus, that formerly were placed in Thecla m. The Acarai Mountains are on the Guyana-Bra- Fabricius, 1807. In the aforementioned checklist zilian border, highest elevation in this range close (Robbins 2004), the genus included 41 species (15 to 1200 m. Many of the ranges of the Tumucu- unnamed). Duarte & Robbins (2010) redescribed maque Uplands are very remote and even less and revised the genus, listing three characters for explored than the tepuis (Fratello 2003, 2005). distinguishing Lamprospilus from the rest of the Whether the relatively small area of the Tumu- Calycopidina, and reduced the number to ten cumaque Uplands above approximately 1,000 m described, plus four-five undescribed species. should be considered part of the Pantepui pro- vince is a study in its infancy and will be dis- The purpose of the present paper is to name, cussed later in this manuscript. describe and discuss a new calycopidine hair- streak butterfly, as yet only found in the Guiana Fratello (2005) reported on the occurrence of a Highlands. The discussion includes the placement spectacular and distinctive hairstreak with trans- of this species within Lamprospilus, its sexual parent wing patches collected in the Acarai dimorphism including evidence supporting their Mountains of Guyana. The single specimen was conspecificity, the peculiarity and hypotheses re- documented and discussed in detail and was garding the male phenotype and considerations on identified as an undescribed species of butterfly endemism and biogeography. Lamprospilus Geyer, [1832] (Fratello 2005), a calycopidine hairstreak (Duarte & Robbins 2010). MATERIALS AND METHODS This species remained hitherto unnamed. Recently, six males and five females of the same species Acronyms: CF = Christophe Faynel, Montaud, have been collected by two of us (MC and MB) France; HNHM = Hungarian National History on the slopes of the Sororopán and Auyán Tepuis Museum, Budapest; MB = Mohamed Benmesbah, in Venezuela. Toulouse, France; MC = Mauro Costa, Caracas, Venezuela; MIZA = Museo del Instituto de Zoo- Calycopidine hairstreaks represent one of the logía Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía, Universi- most diverse groups of Eumaeini, a tribe consti- dad Central de Venezuela, Maracay; NHMUK = tuting more than 90% of the Lycaenidae fauna in Natural History Museum United Kingdom, Lon- South America (Robbins 2004). In the Neotro- don; PB = Pierre Boyer, Le Puy Sainte Reparade, 112 Costa et al.: Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part VII France; SF = Steven Fratello, New York, USA; Material examined (n = 12). Holotype ♂ (set USNM = United States National Museum, dorsally, in perfect condition), Venezuela, Bolívar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; ZB = Auyán Tepui, El Danto, 1500 m, 18.I.2017, Zsolt Bálint, HNHM, Budapest. 05°43'50"N, 62°32'27"W, M. Costa, & M. Ben- mesbah (MIZA) (Figs. 1–2). Paratype (allotype) About 850 calycopidine specimens were ♀, Venezuela, Bolívar, Auyán Tepui, El Peñón, examined in the HNHM for comparative purposes. 1850 m, 29.I.2019, 05°44'40"N, 62°32'27"W, M. The digital documentation of 81 Lamprospilus Costa & M. Benmesbah (MIZA) (Figs. 3–4). specimens deposited in the private collection of Further paratypes (6 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀): 1♂, Guyana: PB was also studied. Relevant Lamprospilus type Acarai Mts./Ridge, Sipu River 2500–3000 ft, material was examined by ZB in the NHMUK (cf. 31.X.–10.XI.2000, 1°22.2'N, 58°47.91'W, S. Fra- Bálint & Goodger 2003, Bálint 2005); when tello et al. (USNM) (Figs. 5–6); 1♂, idem holo- necessary, we consulted the images of type spe- type, 19.I.2017 (MB); 2♂♂, Venezuela, Bolívar, cimens on the web-site Butterflies of America Auyán Tepui, entre Guayaraca y El Danto, 1400 (Warren et al. 2018). Depository of type speci- m, 28.I.2019, 05°43'22"N, 62°32'30"W, M. Costa mens is indicated in the Type material entry. & M. Benmesbah (1 MIZA, 1 CF); 1♂, idem, (HNHM); 1♂, idem, (MC); 1♀, idem allotype For morphological studies we used standard (MIZA); 1♀, idem allotype (MIZA); 1♀, Vene- entomological techniques (Winter 2000). Speci- zuela, Bolívar, Sororopán Tepui, 1650 m, 19.VII. mens were set and digitally documented in the 2014, 5°42'08"N, 61°47'06"W, M. Costa (HNHM); private laboratory of Stéphane Attal (Paris, Fran- 1♀, idem (MC). ce), and were put on loan for the HNHM (coll. Lepidoptera, 2017-25). Abdomens were dissected Classification and generic placement. This in the HNHM laboratory, inventoried with serial species belongs to the tribe Eumaeini because it numbers of Zsolt Bálint („gen. prep. nos”) and the possesses the following three diagnostic cha- preparations are being kept with the relevant spe- racters: (1) ten forewing veins; (2) greyhound- cimens in plastic microvials filled with glycerin. shaped male genitalia without a sclerotized juxta; In the HNHM, an Olympus 70SZX12 optical ste- (3) male foretarsus fused and stubby tipped, used reo microscope was used to examine specimen for walking (Eliot 1973). It is placed in the genus anatomy; for digitalisation, an Olympus DP70 di- Lamprospilus (type species: Lamprospilus genius gital camera attached to the microscope was used.
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