Euphaedra cyparissa tai Hecq, 1986

Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Warren-Gash, Haydon, Lorenc-Brudecka, Jadwiga, Dieuwko Knoop,, Oremans, Philippe & Safian, Szabolcs, 2013, Taxonomy and distribution pattern of the African rain forest butterfly genus Euphaedra Huebner sensu stricto with the description of three new subspecies of Euphaedra cyparissa (Cramer) and one of E. sarcoptera (Butler) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Limenitidinae, Adoliadini), ZooKeys 298, pp. 1-37 : 5-6

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scientific name	Euphaedra cyparissa tai Hecq, 1986
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Euphaedra cyparissa tai Hecq, 1986 Figs 1E, 1F View Figure 1 , 4A, 4B View Figure 4 , 9B View Figure 9 , 10D View Figure 10

Euphaedra cyparissa tai [sic] Hecq, 1986: 42, figs. 11, 16, 17.

Type-locality.

Tai Forest ( Forêt de Taï), Ivory Coast

Material examined.

12 ♂: Ivory Coast, Tai, 13-14.05.2000, S. Collins leg.; 1 ♂: same data, prep. genit. 07/09.05.2012, J. Lorenc; 1 ♀: same data; 1 ♀: same data, prep. genit. 08/09.05.2012, J. Lorenc; 1 ♂: same data but XII.1998, K. Adams leg., ABRI; 2 ♂: Ivory Coast, Tai, 12.I.1999, H. Warren-Gash leg.; 1 ♂: Ivory Coast, Tai, 13.I.1999, H. Warren-Gash leg.; 1 ♂ and 1 ♀: Ivory Coast, Tai, XII.1998, K. Adams; 2 ♂ and 1 ♀: Ivory Coast, Tai, 02.I.2000, H. Warren-Gash leg.; 1 ♂ and 1 ♀: Ivory Coast, Tai, 13.V.2000, H. Warren-Gash leg., HWG.

Diagnosis.

Upperside colour black and pine green.

Redescription.

Male ( Figs 1E, 1F View Figure 1 ): Head, thorax and abdomen: identical to other subspecies. FWD: length 35-37 mm, mean: 36 mm, n=19 with an elongated apical part, and gently convex outer margin; most of wing surface black; costa from base to apex dusted with dark blue; a bottle green area from wing base to tornus, marginally entering discal cell; a large, roughly rectangular bottle green subapical patch with a bluish sheen, extending widely from subcostal to vein Cu1, with sharply defined zigzagging basal limit, without any incision along vein M3, and somewhat diffused outer limit; fringes grey. HWD oval with a gently scalloped outer margin; bottle green, gradually turning bluish green from vein M3 towards tornus and anal margin, with a black marginal area with a strong dark blue flush, gradually narrowing from roughly 4-5 mm at apex to 1 mm at tornus; fringes grey. FWV mostly bottle green, slightly lighter than on the upperside, a series of black spots, at wing base, mid cell, cell end, the latter two elongated, a half-moon one in mid cell Cu1-Cu2; two black elongated patches and four spots, two enclosing basally and distally a bottle green patch, and two large, roughly half-moon tornal patches in Cu1-Cu2 and Cu2-1/2A; HWV green with a strong yellow overcast gradually more prominent towards anal margin and tornus, with an elongated basal pinkish patch extending from costal margin to Rs to one-fourth costa, edged with black; two black discal spots, and a row of eight large, roughly oval black submarginal patches; marginal area darker bottle green and black. Male genitalia ( Fig. 9B View Figure 9 ): Not differing noticeably from the nominotypical, except for a small, sharp apical tip on the valvae.

Female ( Figs 4A, 4B View Figure 4 ): Sexual dimorphism slight, recognized from the male by the larger size (FW length: 43 mm, n=3). Female genitalia ( Fig. 10D View Figure 10 ): Bursa copulatrix very large, roughly oval; no signa; ductus bursae (0.10 mm) approximately the same width over the whole length, half the length of bursa; antrum, here referred as to colliculum ( Razowski 1996), slat like with gently folded edges, strongly sclerotized, one-third the length of ductus bursae, shorter than in other subspecies; ductus seminalis joins the colliculum at the entrance of ductus bursae; lamella postvaginalis slat-like; papillae anales three times as long (0.14 mm) as wide in lateral view, compressed in ventral view; apophyse posteriores as long as the width of papillae anales; von Siebold organ prominent (but smaller than in some species of the Euphaedra ceres group ( Pyrcz et al. 2011).

Range.

The known distribution is limited to the Tai National Park in western Ivory Coast. The same pine green colour can be found in Euphaedra sarcoptera styx (see below) and also in the local population of Euphaedra judith Weymer, the latter probably deserving a separate subspecific status (Pyrcz et al. in prep.).