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Issue: Vol. 797 No. 1: 5 Jan. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-01-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.797.1.1
Page range: 1–20
Abstract views: 39
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Five new Penaincisalia species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) from the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560-0127, USA
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, England
7 Countryside Way, Andover, MA, 01810-6130, USA
Lepidoptera Andes cloud forest Ecuador hilltopping Penaincisalia Peru

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 & Willmott n. sp., P. andreae Busby & Hall n. sp., P. libertada Hall n. sp. and P. ismaeli Busby & Hall n. sp.. We present brief discussions on their systematic placement within the genus and on their adult ecology.

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