Johnsonita zubkova Balint, Boyer & Lorenc-Brudecka 2021, sp. n.
Creators: name: Bálint, Zsolt
name: Boyer, Pierre
name: Cerdeña, José
name: Larico, Jackie Farfán
name: Brudecka, Jadwiga Lorenc-
name: Prieto, Carlos
name: Pyrcz, Tomasz W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Johnsonita
Johnsonita zubkova

description: Johnsonita zubkova Bálint, Boyer & Lorenc –Brudecka sp. n.
(Figs 15, 19G–H, 22J–L, 23H, 31)
Type material. Holotype male in perfect condition, set dorsally, with data: PERU, Dept. Cuczo, Paucartambo, Abra Acjanacovers Pillcopata km 10, 3000-3100 m, 24.II.2005, P. Boyer. (dissected: gen. prep. 6301/ J. Lorenc) (CB; will be deposited in MUSM). Paratypes (n=2), all from Peru: Dept. Puno, Vallée de Limbani, Carcel Punco, 8km nord de Limbani, 2600–2700 m, V.2005, J. Böttger (CB: female); Dept. Cuzco, Puente Huayllayoc, via Marcapata vers Ocongate, km 4, 3100 m, 8.X.2009, P. Boyer (CB: female).
Description. Wings. FW costa length: 14 mm (n=3), apical area of costa and outer margin is straight resulting in a somewhat pointed shape; dorsal wing surface colouration pale violet blue, black border inner margin reaching the erection of vein M3; HW dorsal surface discal area structurally coloured; tornal area pale brown; ventral FW submedial and medial pattern running parallel, submarginal area conspicuously lighter than medial and basal regions, antemargin area lighter brown; HW medial pattern composed by ruptive band brown coloured bordered basally by a thin white line, submarginal area not lighter than medial and basal regions, antemargin area brown. Genitalia. Male valva thin and narrow with rounded costal margin flip, valval terminus extremely pointed and very long. Female ductus thin with divergent edges, no lower plate, upper plate symmetric and large, frame sclerotized with delicate dentation.Androconia present in ventral FW along Cubital 2 vein as a wide black streak in the median- and postmedian area.
Diagnosis. On the basis of the ventral HW pattern and presence of androconia in the FW ventral surface it is only confusable with J. pardoa, which has a deeper blue dorsal wing surface colouration and the HW ventral surface pattern is far more contrasted. The male genitalia valva possesses the longest apical process in the genus.
Distribution. Geographical: PERU (Cuzco, Puno) (Fig. 31); spatial: recorded between 2600–3100 m a.s.l; temporal: recorded in January, May and October.
Etymology. The species is named after Anna Zubek (Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, Krakow), entomologist and molecular genetist, good friend and colleague of the authors. The species name “zubkova” is freely formed by Latinising the word “zubek” and treating it as a female noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Bálint, Zsolt, Boyer, Pierre, Cerdeña, José, Larico, Jackie Farfán, Brudecka, Jadwiga Lorenc-, Prieto, Carlos & Pyrcz, Tomasz W., 2021, Contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical Lycaenidae: taxonomy of Johnsonita Salazar & Constantino, 1995 with descriptions of seven new species (Theclinae Eumaeini), pp. 11-57 in Zootaxa 4963 (1) on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4711249