Two phylogenetically significant new Calycopis species (Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini)

Abstract

Calycopis sullivani Robbins & Duarte is described from wet lowland rain forest on the Atlantic Coast of Central America, and Calycopis cicero Robbins & Duarte is named from cloud forest on the eastern slope of the Andes of Ecuador. Both new species and C. caesaries have the ductus ejaculatorius entering the penis ventrally, a character state that has not been reported for the Eumaeini. These three species and C. cerata share muted blue color dorsally in males. The phylogenetic positions of C. caesaries and C. cerata were unstable in ongoing phylogenetic analyses, and the two new species are described because we are adding them to the analyses.