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Zootaxa 797: 1–20 (2005) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 797 Copyright © 2005 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Five new Penaincisalia species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) from the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru JASON P. W. HALL1, KEITH R. WILLMOTT2 & ROBERT C. BUSBY3 1Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560-0127, USA 2Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, England 37 Countryside Way, Andover, MA, 01810-6130, USA Abstract Five new species of Penaincisalia (Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) are described from the high Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru: P. caeruleanota Hall & Willmott n. sp., P. juliae Hall & Will- mott n. sp., P. andreae Busby & Hall n. sp., P. libertada Hall n. sp. and P. ism ae li Busby & Hall n. sp.. We present brief discussions on their systematic placement within the genus and on their adult ecology. Key words: Andes, cloud forest, Ecuador, hilltopping, Penaincisalia, Peru Introduction The lycaenid butterfly fauna of the high Andes remained very poorly known until recently. Entire lineages went undiscovered and/or undescribed for centuries, and museums pos- sessed only a small fraction of the region’s true lycaenid species diversity, as indeed do most to this day. These factors contributed to the widespread but mistaken belief that the high Andean lycaenid fauna was genuinely depauperate (Shapiro, 1994). Johnson (1990, 1992) was the first author since Draudt (1919–21) to substantively treat this group of Neotropical lycaenids, which he dubbed “elfins”. He described dozens of new genera and species, using predominantly historical museum material, and placed them in his “infratribe Thecloxurina”. However, given the unavailability at the time of suf- ficient well-labeled material, sometimes careless work practices (Robbins & Nicolay, 1999, 2002; Robbins & Lamas, 2002), and a philosophy of naming and treating what most people would regard as slight variants as different species (Johnson, 2001), we find the Accepted by J. Brown: 3 Nov. 2004; published: 5 Jan. 2005 1.

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