Johnsonita johnsoni Salazar & Constantino, 1995

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), Zootaxa 4963 (1), pp. 11-57 : 28-29

Johnsonita johnsoni Salazar & Constantino, 1995

( Figs 10 , 21J–L , 23E , 32 )

Johnsonita johnsoni – Salazar & Constantino 1995: 460; Robbins 2004b: 120; Constantino & Salazar 2007: 343.

Type material. The species was described on the basis of two males, holotype and paratype, respectively. UBSD holotype male is in good condition, set dorsally, labelled as “#60 [//] COLOMBIA, Caldas, [//] Manizales Hacienda [//] Martinica , 3100 m, 16. i. 83. [//] J.H. Vélez ” (white label, printed) (electronic documentation examined) .

Material examined (n=2, two dissections). ECUADOR: Azuay, Gualaceo-Limón road, west slopes, 3050 m, 9.II.2002, J. Wojtusiak, R. Garlacz & T. Pyrcz ( CEP – MZUJ: female; gen. prep. 378/ J. Lorenc) ; Morona-Santiago, Riobamba–Macas via Atillo km47–50, S02°11’399 W78°28’830, 3200-3400 m, 15.I.2011, P. Boyer ( CB: male; gen. prep. 892/ J. Lorenc) .

Redescription. Wing. FW costa length: 12–13 mm (n=2, BC male, CEP – MZUJ female), apical area of costa and outer lower margin are not straight resulting in a somewhat rounded wing shape; male dorsal wing surface blue colouration violet, black border inner margin reaching the middle of vein M3; HW dorsal surface discal area structurally coloured; ventral FW submedial and medial pattern composed of light ruptive dashes supplemented distally with dark spots running parallel, submedial area at costa darker than discal area, postmedial line composed of brown arrow–head markings, inner margin medial area with brown scaling. Genitalia. Male valva with rounded costal margin flip and extremely pointed valval terminus (with the length of the valva). Female ductus heavily sclerotized, edges slightly concave, no lower plate, upper plate large with heavily sclerotized terminus. Androconia present in ventral FW along vein Cubitus 2 as a long streak from the submedian area reaching almost the outer margin in male.

Diagnosis. This species can be easily distinguished from other congeners on the basis of the male ventral FW subbasal-postmedial scent patch which is the longest in the genus, and by the richly patterned ventral HW, displaying a darker costal region, again, unique among Johnsonita .

Distribution. Geographical: COLOMBIA (Caldas), ECUADOR (Azuay, Morona Santiago) ( Fig. 32 ); spatial: 3050–3100 ma.s.l; temporal: February.

Note. Insufficiently known species, at moment three males and one female specimen are known. The female is described here for the first time.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Johnsonita johnsoni Salazar & Constantino, 1995 imagines (left column: recto, right column: verso). A–B: male (Ecuador: Morona–Santiago), C–D: female (Ecuador: Azuay) (CEP–MZUJ specimens) (scale bar: 10 mm).

FIGURE 21. Entire Johnsonita female organs in lateral (left column), ductus in lateral (central column) and ventral (right column) views. A–C: J. chlamydem, Peru, Amazonas, Rodriguez de Mendoza; D–F: J. iacinta, Peru, Pasco-Oxapampa, La Antena; G–I: J. johnbanksi, Peru, Mendoza–Llanuayco; J–L: J. johnsoni, Ecuador, Azuay, Gualaceo-Limón road (CEP–MZUJ specimens) (scale as indicated).

FIGURE 23. Johnsonita mail trait ventral forewing subcubital scent patch indicated by arrow. A: J. carpia, B: J. catadupa, C: J. chlamydem, D: J. ianusca, E: J. johnsoni, F: J. pardoa, G: J. turquisca, H: J. zubkova.

FIGURE 32. Johnsonita distributions based on museum material examinded. J. johnbanksi = yellow triangle, J. johnsoni = green square, J. pardoa = red circle.