28 INSECTA MUNDI Vol. 2, no. 1, March 1988 'f3ergzSSlma.. aIrd Femnlterga,. New Sister Genera of Calycopis Scudder and Calystryma Field from the South Central Andes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) by Kurt Johnson Department of Entomology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, New York 10024 Abstract the Argentine Calycopls and Calystryma faunas In detail. ll n Taxa of ~e generally "blue-abov'e CalyiS and brown-above Calystryma haveextremelysim' ar under surface wing patterns (see Field, 1967a, p.l, 1967b, p. 2) a feature also shared wi~h seve~allittle-studiedgroups of Hewitson [=sangala Hewitso~] ~. Ca!ycopis and caly- ,, taxa and other Eumaeini by their lack of male forewing seconda sexual brands. Mo holo of the four genera IS compare In e al. our new speCIes are e­ scribed' 1 masconlensls, 1 macphersonl, f notacastanea and F. judae, three of which are also distributed north­ forms (quotingField's [1967a, 1%7b] terminology) an"in ward into eastern Bolivia. cised posterior cavitY of Rsubcordate" shape surround­ Introduction ing the genitalic parts. In Culycopis (Fig. SA) this Lergal innovationis small, scarcelyexceedingthespiracles later- Scudder and Field are genera Calycopis Calystryma In ll any. However, Calystryma It IS much larger (Fig. 3B), of "hairstreak butterilies (Lycaenidae: Theclinael as­ usuaHy extendingfrom an anteriorprotrusion under the signed Lo Lhe hIDe Eumaeinqsensu ElioL, 1973). Field seventh abdominal segment ventrad past the seventh r~vispd Ca~ycopis (1967a 1967b) md Calystryma includ­ abdominal spiracles. To accoIIuttodaLe Lhe $piracles Lhere Inj2i speCIes oToi/ycoplSfrOmthe Nearcic animo- is usually an incised notch or opening. tropical realms, and 13 Neotropical Calystryma species. .. In his revisionary work, Field obtained only Since Field obtained only limited Argentine samples limIted samples from Argentina. He listed no Calystryma and healed few taxa souLh of Brazil and Bolivia, John- f~om Arg~ntina, and in Calycopis located only 48 Argen­ son, Eisele and MacPherson (1988, in press) have studied hne speCImens, 46 of which he identified as C. chtlCOlltl Kurt Johnson: Tergissima and Femniterga Pages 28-42 Vol. 2, no. 1, March 1988 INSECTA MUNDI 29 Jorgensen from northwestern Argentina. The remaining Eisele; Philip Ackerv and Richard Vane Wright (for two specimens represented C. indiqo (Druce) from ex­ British Museum, Natural History); John E. Rawlins; Lee treme nortbeastern Argentina o and Jacqueline Y Miller (for AJlyn Museum of Ento-- In 1984, the American Museum of Natural History mology); M. Ajmat de Toledo (for Instituto Miguel Lillo, (AMNH) acquired most of the Bruce MacPherson col Tucuman, l\rgentina); G. Bernardi and Jacques Pierre lection of Algentine Theclinae. Subsequently, large (for Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle) and ]. Bol- samples of Argentine Theclinae were added by Robert ling Sullivan, III (Duke University). Rev. Eisele also ( Eisele Tbe resulting sample induded over five personally reviewed the final curated collection at the hundred specimens of the Calycopis/ Calystryma assem- AMNH to reconfirm association of males and females blage from some one hundred Argentine localities dis- and their habitat data Charles A Bridges (I IniVerSity of tributed from La Rioja Province north to the Bolivian Illinois) graciously gave access to his computer bibliog- border. Additional material available for study was con raphy concerning Eumaeini nomenclature compiled suited, including the Steinbach BolivianmateIial at the with Rober t K. Robbins (National Museum of Natural Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH), the ex­ History, Smithsonian Institution). tensive Argentine material in tbe Britisb Museum (Nat- ural History) (BMNH) collected near the turn of the Systematics century by such workers as Steinbach, Hay-.Nard and Knowledge of character polarity in Eumaeini Giocomelli, the collection of the Instituto Miguel Lillo, genera is limited. This results primarily because al- Tucuman, Argentina [IML], and material previously though 67 genera have been assigned to the tribe (Eliot, deposited at tbe AJlyn Museum of Entomology (AME) 1973) over 750 species are still included in the large, het- byMacPherson and Eisele. From these collections, John­ erogeneous "Thecla" grade (Bridges, 1986) and a still son, Eisele and MacPherson (1988, in press) identified larger numberof taxa remain undescribed. Consequent all the specimens except 58 as various described or un- Iy, interrelations among groups regarded as monophy- desClibed species of Cw'ywpis 01 Culyst'ymu. The othel lenc by various authors are poorly known and the task specimens. though somewhat similar to Calycopis or still remains to define monophyletic terminal assem- Calystryma in general features, immediately attracted at- blages from which future phylogenetic study can tention because of fOreWing markings on males sugges- proceed. tive of secondary sexual brands. Such males (and Calycopis and Calystryma are undoubtedly part of females subsequently associated by wing pattern, col­ a large! infIatribal monophyletic assemblage ill the lection data, and personal review of the specimens and Eumaeini Considering the composition of the tribe, this their data by Eisele) differ remarkably from Catyropis assemblage probably has at least Holarcuc and Neo- and Calystrynza in genitalic stmcture and also bave tropical distributions At present it is doubtful whether unique specializations of the eighth tergite, including the immediate cladistic outgroups of Calycopis and Caly- tergal modification in some females as well as mates. It strymtl can be determined '...,ith certainty to allow their is apparent from a review of taxa presently placed in the study in a phylogenetic context. A number of groups hibe Eumaeini Oohnson, MacPherson and Ingraham, variously resembling Culycopis alld Culystryma, both 1986) that these unusual specimens cannot be con- new and from within the Thecla grade. require descrip- sldered congeneTlc WIth Calycopis, Calystryma, or any tion before an adequate range of taxa and character known Eumaeini genus, {'he purpose of this paper is to states are available for cladistic evaluation. describe two new genera to include these new taxa and Johnson, MacPherson and Ingraham (1986), in de- discuss them in relation to Ctllycopis, Calystrymtl and sUIDing allother lIew eumaeille gellus from western other eumaeine taxa. Argentina. have listed taxa examined of the Eumaeini mcludmg 359 speCIes of 58 Holarctic and Neotroplcal Acknowledgements genera, 115 apparently undescribed taxa, and taxa of John N. Eliot (Taunton, United Kingdom), John E, Calycopis and Calystryma. Their listing includes types Rawlills (Camegie Museum of NatUlal IIistory), Robelt and ty pe species examined. These examined taxa serve C Eisele ijujuy. Argentina), Frederick H. Rindge as the basis here for description of two additional new (AMNH), and three anonymous reVIewers of the eumaeine genera. As indicated in Table I and the Ap­ AMNH publications committee kindly reviewed drafts pendix, these new genera have characters clearly sug- of this manuscript. Each made helpful suggestions. The gestmg affimty to Calycop's and Calystryma but also following persons contributed to the material examin characters which are unique. The new genera also ap- ed: Bruce MacPherson (Salta, Argentina); Robert C. pear to have primarily austral Neotropical distributions. Kurt Johnson:Tergissima and Femniterga Pages 28-42 30 INSECTA MUNDI Vol. 2, no. 1, March 1988 Thus, pending future cladistic study, the genera are Limbal area with blue coloration in cell CuA2, with treated here as four separate taxa and the new genera remaining cells costad to M3 variously reddish. tentatively identified amongst Eumaeini as apparent Apex of discal celi with faint whitish slash. some- sister taxa of Calycopis and Calystryma. The Appendix times bordered basad with emphatic red. summarizes the taxonomic characters studied in Caly- Female. Upper surface of the wings: as males but copis, Calystryma, the new genera and superficially sim ground color lighter and without apparent brand ilar butnot closely related sympatric eumaeine taxa. The on forewing. Under surface of the wings: As males la tter are par ticularly represented by 1101 thwestem but With M3 Wing bar reduced Argentine Thecla autoclea, which we have determined by Male Abdominal Mor~holo~~ and Genitalia. Fi~S. reference to the type. BMNH. Table I describes the dis- 3C,1 I, 5C. Eighth te~ite 0rning sderoHzed pos c­ tributions of characters in these taxa and those distin- rior cavi Fi. 3C extendin from rotrusion enea SIX a omma segmen an enClrc ng abdomen laterally (Fig 31 a,b,c) until recurving Tergissima, beneath the ninth stemite (Fig. 3Cd), with two ven- new genus tro lateral notches or openings proximate the Figures 1; 3C,H; 4E,F; 5C seventh and eighth abdominal spiracles (Fig. 3Ca,b.c). Genitalia (Figs. 3H, 5C) with uncus pro­ Diagnosis. As detailed in the Appendix for the duced greatly cauda-ventrad (Figs 3H a, 5ea); characters listed below, Terglsslma are dark brown valvae separate alongsaccular margin except at base colored on both wing surfaces and further distinctive in the presence of markings suggestive of brands, certain "tale and female genitalic characters and male tergal 5<:; v' cular c adjoining saccus angled 60::9(r t modification including a sclerotized subcordate incised posterior cavity extending from a protmsion beneath ~;; :~;~:~~~:~g(~::~~t ~:e~~~;:~o;~::~: the sixth abdominal segment laterad