Penaincisalia, Johnson, 1990

Bálint, Zsolt, Boyer, Pierre, Farfán, Jackie, Cerdeña, José & Pyrcz, Tomasz W., 2022, A new high-altitude species of Penaincisalia Johnson, 1990 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Peruvian Andes, Zootaxa 5154 (1), pp. 49-59 : 50

Key to the orange Penaincisalia species based on male wing characters

(1) Dorsal wing surfaces with violet sheen.................................................................... 2

- Dorsal wing surfaces without violet, but goldish sheen ( Peru: Ancash)...................... P. aurulenta Johnson, 1990

(2) Ventral forewing area below discalis orange.............................................................. (3)

- Ventral forewing below discalis brown or grey............................................................. (4)

(3) Dorsal forewing androconia black, hindwing black border fading towards tornus ( Peru: Ancash)..... P. perezi Bálint, 2001

- Dorsal forewing androconia grey, hindwing black border visible as far as the tornus ( Peru: Apurímac).................................................................................... P. sp. (see Bálint et al. 2019: figures 25-28)

(4) Larger (forewing costa length 12 mm), dorsal wing surface dark rufous brown, ventral forewing surface median and postmedian region with same colour ( Peru: Apurímac)................................................. P. alina Bálint, 2019

- Smaller (forewing costa 11 mm), dorsal wing surface vivid orange, ventral forewing surface grey in median and brownish grey in postmedian areas ( Peru: Huancavelica)................................................... P. jadwigae sp. n.