Perisama bleuzeni Attal & Crosson
Creators: name: Zubek, Anna
name: Lorenc-Brudecka, Jadwiga
name: Pyrcz, Tomasz W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Perisama
Perisama bleuzeni

description: Perisama bleuzeni Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 1996, stat. n.
(Figs. 1 A, 2A, 3, 4A–F)
Perisama oppelii bleuzeni Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 1996: 30–31, Pl 3, figs. 2, 6. Type locality: Venezuela, Mérida, La Azulita, holotype in ACC–SA. Nield, 1996: 57, Pl. 7, figs. 334, 335; Lamas, 2004: 247; Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 2010: 233; Le Crom & Attal, 2013:153.
Redescription. MALE (Fig.1 A, 3A): Head: eyes dark brown and hairy; antennae reaching 2/3 of the costal FW margin, with dorsal surface covered with dark brown scales with a silky shine, ventral surface light brown and naked, patches of white scales on the outer side; club wide and rounded; labial palpi blackish brown on the upperside, with a stripe of long, yellowish hair at the top, on the underside pale yellow with a thin layer of long dark hair. Thorax: dorsal surface black, covered with long hair-like metallic green and blue scales; femur pale yellow to white, densely covered with yellow hair, tibia and tarsus darker than femur, covered with yellow scales, tibial spurs present. Abdomen: dorsal surface black, dorsal surface creamy-white, covered with short, straight hair. Wings: FW length: 24 mm; FWD: ground colour black; wide (3.5 mm), straight metallic green postmedian band; small but conspicuous, light blue subapical mark; discal area 'dusted' with metallic green scales; fringe black around the veins and white between them; HWD: ground colour black; ashen blue submarginal band, of medium width, composed of unfused markings, never reaching the outer wing margin; a complex of metallic green scales, forming irregular patches and rays in discal and median area; fringe black, with some faint white marks between the lines; FWV: ground colour black, slightly brighter in anal area; apical area pale yellow; basal patch pale yellow, irregular, with diffused margin, covering approximately 1/3 of the wing surface; metallic green and white markings in submedian and median area of costal wing margin; HWV: ground colour pale yellow; postmedian line black, almost straight, only slightly zigzagging; submarginal line black, slightly arched, irregularly zigzaging; fringe black.
MALE GENITALIA (Figs. 4 A–E): uncus arched, beak-shaped, with narrowed tip and a tuft of long hair on the dorsal surface; gnathos large and well developed, consisting of two L-shaped branches, connected with an arched lateral branch; tegumen with an elongated proximally dome, small, elongated, sharp-tipped appendix angularis; prominent pedunculus extended ventro-proximally in a shape of a triangle and ventro-distally, in a shape of a small lobe; vinculum relatively short and arched ventrally; saccus long and thin, with rounded and slightly arched tip; valvae elongated, tongue-shaped; basal part of the costa splits laterally and forms two sets of proximal appendices: the inner appendix consisting of ventrally located lobe-like process and a finger-like process pointed dorsally; the outer appendix is formed with a C-shaped process extending into a lobe and ended with an proximal L-shaped process; aedeagus thin and straight, slightly longer than valva; hypandrium wide, with distal end in a form of a wide, U-shaped fork, collar short and only slightly narrower than body, and short, triangular lobes at the proximal end.
FEMALE (Fig. 2 A, 3A): Slightly larger than most examined male specimens, with rounded wings and no significant difference in wing pattern.
FEMALE GENITALIA (Fig. 4 F): papillae anales oval, with thin apophyses, slightly longer then the width of papillae; ostium bursae small and dorso-ventrally flattened; lamella antevaginalis expanded into a large pleated lobe, surrounding the ductus bursae from underneath and on the sides; ductus bursae longer than corpus bursae, equally wide within the whole length, first section (1/3 of the length) softly sclerotized, opens gradually into the corpus bursae; corpus bursae round and wide; signa small and oval, located at the opening of ductus bursae.
Material examined. MZUJ: 1♂: Venezuela, Mérida State, Via La Azulita, San Eusebio, 2000–2050 m, 01.VII.2009, T. Pyrcz & A. Zubek leg., prep. genit. 137/J. Lorenc, 15.04.2015; 5♂: Venezuela, Táchira State, El Táma N.P., Betania, 2300–2400 m, 13-15.IV.1996, T. Pyrcz leg.; 1♂: same data, prep. genit. 66/A. Zubek, 05.IX.2012; 2♂: Venezuela, Mérida State, S. Nevada N.P., San Isidro, 1500–1600 m, 19–20.II.1996, T. Pyrcz leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, P.N. El Tama, San Vicente, 2200 m, 12.IV.1996, T. Pyrcz leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Barinas State, Minas de San Isidro, 1400 m, 23.II.2010, T. Pyrcz leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Trujillo State, Quebrada Escorá, 1660 m, 14.II.2010, T. Pyrcz leg.; 5♂: Venezuela, Mérida State, Quebrada La Campana, 1850 m, 02.III.2010, T. Pyrcz leg.; 3♂: same data but 23.II.2010; 4♂: same data but 24.II.2010; 1♂: Venezuela, Mérida State, Niquitao, 1600 m, 07.XII.2005, T. Pyrcz leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Barinas State, Barinitas–Sto. Domingo, Qda. La Campana, 1800 m, 27.III.2011, T. Pyrcz leg., prep. genit. 61/A. Zubek, 03.IX.2012; 1♂: same data but 27.III.2011; 3♂: Venezuela, Mérida State, P.N. La Culata, Chorrera de Jaji, 1800-1850 m, 13.VII.2006, T. Pyrcz leg. prep. genit. 113/A. Zubek, 24.04.2014; 1♀: Venezuela, Trujillo State, P.N. Guaramacal (La Vega), 2500 m, 15.II.2007, T.Pyrcz leg., prep. genit. 134/J. Lorenc, 15.04.2015. PB: 1♂: Venezuela, Mérida State: Mérida to Azulita km 47, 2400 m, P.Boyer leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Mérida State: Santo Domingo to Barinitas km 20, 1400/ 1500 m, P.Boyer leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Mérida State: Las Cruces to la Azulita, 2300 m, P.Boyer leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Mérida State: Las Cruces 1800 m, P.Boyer leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Mérida State: La Chorrera, road Mérida to la Azulita, 1850 m, P.Boyer leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Trujillo State: Cascada la Paila, east of Niquitao, 1900 m, P.Boyer leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Trujillo State: Niquitao to Bocono km9, 1600 m, P.Boyer leg.; 1♂: Venezuela, Barinas State: road Barinitas to Santo Domingo, via a las Minas, 1300/ 1400 m, P.Boyer leg.
Distribution. Cordillera de Mérida and El Tamá range in Venezuela.
description: Published as part of Zubek, Anna, Lorenc-Brudecka, Jadwiga & Pyrcz, Tomasz W., 2015, Hypandrium as a key character in resolving species-level taxonomy on the example of Perisama oppelii (Latreille) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Biblidinae) in Zootaxa 3990 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/235950