Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici

Author(s): Bálint, Zs. & Costa, M.
Title: Description of an Ocaria species from the Venezuelan Pantepuy (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae)
Year: 2012
Volume: 104
Pages: 299-310.

Abstract: Ocaria elisa sp. n. (Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini) is described from the Guyana Shield in Venezuela. It is unique amongst congeners having the combination of the following external characters, (1) relatively large size compared with congeners, (2) black male dorsal forewing surface, (3) a dorsal forewing androconial cluster in the apical part of the discal cell, and (4) patternless ventral hindwing submedial area. A key for the species groups, notes on the diversity of the genus, discussion on the external characters of the species, and a checklist of the species are given. With 16 figures.
Keywords: new species, Venezuela, Eumaeini, species groups, Ocaria, Pantepuy
Subject: zoology

Journal: Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici
Journal abbreviation: Annls hist.-nat. Mus. nat. hung.
ISSN: 0521-4726
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Matskási, I. & Merkl, O.