Contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical Lycaenidae: taxonomy of Johnsonita Salazar & Constantino, 1995 with descriptions of seven new species (Theclinae Eumaeini) Author Bálint, Zsolt 0000-0001-8174-878X Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, H- 1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary. balint. zsolt @ nhmus. hu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8174 - 878 X balint.zsolt@nhmus.hu Author Boyer, Pierre Lotissement l’Horizon, 13610 Le Puy Sainte Réparade, France. Author Cerdeña, José 0000-0003-3930-6480 Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Museo de Historia Natural, Av. Alcides Carrión s / n, Arequipa, Peru. cerdenajoseal @ yahoo. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3930 - 6480 jjackie 4 u @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5913 - 0756 cerdenajoseal@yahoo.es Author Larico, Jackie Farfán 0000-0003-3930-6480 Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Museo de Historia Natural, Av. Alcides Carrión s / n, Arequipa, Peru. cerdenajoseal @ yahoo. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3930 - 6480 jjackie 4 u @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5913 - 0756 cerdenajoseal@yahoo.es Author Brudecka, Jadwiga Lorenc- Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 5, 30 - 387 Kraków, Poland. Author Prieto, Carlos Corporación Universitaria Autónoma del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia. Author Pyrcz, Tomasz W. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30 - 387 Kraków, Poland. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-04-16 4963 1 11 57 journal article 7214 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.1.2 78e78beb-b1ed-43a4-84c7-8180e61463c5 1175-5326 4711249 E93AB178-3419-498B-9563-A704ABAE5EB9 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 ) . 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). 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.