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Issue: Vol. 4524 No. 4: 23 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.4.5
Page range: 482–488
Abstract views: 93
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A new “elfin” butterfly species of Cissatsuma Johnson, 1992 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from northwestern Sichuan, China

Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 1–12, Moscow 119991, Russia Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia
Lepidoptera Theclinae Eumaeini morphology genitalia taxonomy zoogeography Palaearctic Hengduan Mts. Qionglai Mts

Abstract

A new species of elfin blue, Cissatsuma berezowskii Krupitsky sp.n., is described from the northwestern Sichuan Province, China, based on two old museum specimens, a male and a female. The new species differs from the most closely related one, C. albilinea (Riley, 1932), in lack of white band of ventral wing surfaces, broadened blue area of dorsal wing surfaces in female, and morphology of the male and female genitalia. The distribution map of the new species and C. albilinea is provided.

 

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