taxonID	type	description	language	source
836587E1FF91FFDEFF553280F5D8F85F.taxon	description	(FIGS. 1 A, B; 2; 3 B, D) Sáfián & Collins (2015): 133 – 134. urn: lsid: zoobank. org: pub: 16 A 1 C 3 C 4 - D 996 - 4576 - A 882 - E 9 EE 37 BE 137 D Illustrated specimen data. ♂ LIBERIA, Lofa County, Wologizi Mountains, Ridge Camp 2 8 ° 7 ’ 20.79 ” N, 9 ° 56 ’ 50.75 ” W, 883 m, General collecting, 22 - 31. XI. 2018, Sáfián, Sz., Simonics, G. Leg. Gen. prep.: SAFI 00392. ANHRT: 28: 43. ANHRT unique number: ANHRTUK 00058072 Description and identification. Forewing length: 16.4 mm. Wingspan: 30.7 mm. General appearence similar to that of female with bright red-orange upperside with black border on both wings and paler yellow underside. Forewing black border, hindwing marginal band slightly broader than in female, hindwing band tapers down to narrow black marginal line, terminates at tornus. Both sexes of P. paradoxa have broader black border on the wings, and P. orientalis (Stempffer, 1962) and P. kivuensis Sáfián & Collins, 2015 have a tiny black dot at the end of the cell on the forewing underside (Sáfián & Collins 2015). The genitalia of the specimen illustrated in Fig. 3 are similar to those of all other species in the genus, showing slight differences from those of P. paradoxa: the uncus in P. alfa is more slender and its pointed tip is longer, similarly their sacci (this should be viewed in proportion, as the examined male of P. alfa is larger than the comparative specimen of P. paradoxa). New records. The species was described from the unique female holotype. It was collected on a hilltop, circling rather low with a male which escaped. Very similar bright-orange specimens have since been observed in the Putu Range, the Foya Proposed Protected Area and in the Wologizi Mountains, displaying high up under the canopy of tall ant-trees usually on hilltops. These displaying males did not descend to ground level, and could not be caught, and therefore the true identity of them could not be confirmed. However, a single male was captured under similar circumstance with a long-handle net on a hilltop in the Wologizi Mountains, which supports the possibility of a species more widely distributed in lowland forests in the Liberian sub-region. Only the confirmed new record is listed here and the specimen is illustrated on Fig. 1.	en	Sáfián, Szabolcs (2020): Description of the previously unknown sexes in four West African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) with new data on their distribution. Zootaxa 4834 (2): 219-230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4834.2.4
836587E1FF93FFD8FF5536BBF5EDFE6C.taxon	description	(FIGS 4 A, B; 5) Sáfián, Sz., Collins, S. C. & Libert, M. (2015): 287 – 288. lsid: zoobank. org: pub: 63593 D 6 A-D 6 D 2 - 425 A- 8607 - B 3 AB 08 CD 9471 Illustrated specimen data. ♀ LIBERIA, Lofa County, Foya Proposed Protected Area, Kailahun camp 7 ° 56 ’ 35.80 ” N, 10 ° 16 ’ 36.22 ” W, 530 m, General collecting, 10 - 19. XI. 2017, Aristophanous, M., Sáfián, Sz., Simonics, G., Smith, L. Leg. Gen. prep.: SAFI 00392). ANHRT: 2017: 33 ANHRT unique number: ANHRTUK 00037703. Description and identification. Forewing length: 21.1 mm. Wingspan: 37.3 mm. The general appearence of the female is like G. nitidica Libert & Collins, 1999 and G. wardi Sáfián & Collins, 2015 with a black upperside with the forewing basal half overlaid by peachy blue scaling, which is restricted to the area between veins 1 and 6 on the hindwing. The underside is also very similar with virtually no markings except a fine, greyish marginal line and a submarginal row of grey chevrons. Similarly to the male, the basal two-thirds of vein 1 is thickened on the forewing, also in G. nitidica, whereas in G. wardi the thickened part of vein 1 is shorter than half the total length. The blue area extends to the margin in spaces 2 and 3 on the hindwing of G. pacifica female, whereas it is broader in G. wardi, reaching the margin between veins 1 and 4. The blue on the hindwing of G. nitidica is restricted to the basal and median area, leaving a broad black margin around it. New records. G. paficica was originally known only from lowland localities. The locus typicus is hyper-wet forest in the Gola National Forest (now Gola Forest National Park) on the Sierra Leonean border, where the type was collected with Parasiomera alfa at Camp Alpha. A second male specimen was collected by Robert Tropek in similar habitat in the Sapo National Park (Sáfián et al. 2015 a). During an ANHRT-organized expedition, several males were collected displaing on a hilltop in the Foya Forest (Foya Proposed Protected Area) just north of the Gola Forest. These two lowland forest areas form a single large forest block of hyper-wet forest in Western Liberia. A small series of females was also collected at the same locality. Further male specimens were collected approximately 40 km north-east of the Foya locality in the Wologizi Mountains. A few were observed displaying on tree-trunks on hilltops at 830 - 860 m. At this altitude, Liberian forests usually harbour a few upland elements, and two presumably upland specialists, P. mano Sáfián, 2015 and the only known female of C. wingae Sáfián, 2015 were also collected on the hilltops, sympatrically with G. pacifica.	en	Sáfián, Szabolcs (2020): Description of the previously unknown sexes in four West African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) with new data on their distribution. Zootaxa 4834 (2): 219-230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4834.2.4
836587E1FF95FFDBFF5534D9F3BCFD45.taxon	description	(FIGS. 6 A, B; 7) Sáfián, Sz. (2015): 16 – 18. urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 03 AD 959 B- 1 B 2 C- 42 C 3 - 97 F 9 - 42 A 74 FB 095 B 8 Illustrated specimen data. ♀ LIBERIA, Lofa County, Wologizi Mountains, Ridge Camp 8 ° 7 ’ 10.26 ” N, 9 ° 57 ’ 10.14 ” W, 865 m, 24 - 29. XI. 2017, General collecting, Aristophanous, M., Sáfián, Sz., Simonics, G., Smith, L. Leg. ANHRT: 2017: 33 ANHRT unique number: ANHRTUK 00039163 Note. Identification of females in some groups of Cephetola is often extremely difficult due to the similarity of several species combined with intraspecific variability. The female of C. wingae was expected to be similar to that of C. izidori (Kielland & Congdon, 1998), illustrated in Libert (1999) and also examined in the ABRI collection, as they are closely related (Sáfián 2015 b). In West Africa there are only a couple species with similar females, both appear to be in the C. cephena sub-group, previously listed under the name C. cephena (Hewitson, 1873). The newly described C. daveyi occidentalis Libert, 2020 is known from Ghana, while the resurrected C. doleta (Kirby, 1890) from Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea (Libert 2020). The similar but much darker C. mercedes ivoiriensis (Jackson, 1967) is known from Ivory Coast and Liberia, and only C. doleta is relatively common. C. mercedes ivoriensis has a reduced blue area on the hindwing and a more mottled pattern on the underside, as seen on the female allotype illustrated by both Libert (1999) and d’Abrera (2009). Description and identification. Forewing length: 16.9 mm. Wingspan 30.5 mm. The general appearence of the female is like that of several species in the genus including those in the C. cephena subgroup as described in Libert (2020). The upperside ground colour is blackish, with light a light blue patch on the forewing that covers roughly the median area of space 1 a, the basal two-thirds of 1 b and appears as a small oval spot turining whitish towards its tip in space 2. The usual white sup-apical row of spots is present with only two spots properly formed, the lowest one in the upper half of space 5 and the top one in space 9 are obsolete. The spots are also speckles with a few light blue scales. The hindwing has a large light blue patch in the centre between veins 1 and 6. The edge of the patch is largely diffuse, particularly in space 1 b, in the discal cell and along its outer edge. The forewing underside has the usual black centre and the upperside blue patch and the sub-apical spots appear as dirty white spots. The rest of the forewing is greyish-brown with some grey chevrons along the outer edge. The hindwing is greyish-brown with diffuse grey chevrons along the out margin and grey specks in the outer half of the wing and along the inner margin. New records. The species was described from the Liberian Nimba Mountains and was known from two upland localities on the summits of Mount Beeton (type locality) and Mount Bele (Blei) (Sáfián 2015 b). The female (specimen data shown above) was collected on a hilltop in the Wologizi Mountains, also in upland forest.	en	Sáfián, Szabolcs (2020): Description of the previously unknown sexes in four West African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) with new data on their distribution. Zootaxa 4834 (2): 219-230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4834.2.4
836587E1FF97FFD5FF553495F69CFDA0.taxon	description	(FIGS 8 A, B; 9) Sáfián, Sz., Collins, S. C. & Libert, M. (2015): 68 – 69. urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: F 18 D 3284 - A 9 A 7 - 492 D-B 7 F 5 - 391 F 7 D 0 FCA 43 Illustrated specimen data. ♀ LIBERIA, Nimba County, ENNR, Nimba Mountains camp, 7 ° 31 ’ 45.00 ” N, 8 ° 31 ’ 37.00 ” W, 1165 m, General collecting, Aristophanous, M., Sáfián, Sz., Simonics, G., Smith, L. leg. ANHRT: 2017: 33. ANHRT unique number: ANHRTUK 00037764 Description and identification. Forewing length: 14.9 mm. Wingspan: 28.5 mm. The general appearence is as other females in the P. mimeta group with brown ground colour on the upper wing surface and orange patches on both fore- and hindwings. The hindwing orange patch has straighter and more irregularly serrated outer margin, which are more even, and rather more rounded in P. mimeta. The underside ground colour is brown, with broad yellow area on the forewing, which is approximately half the width of the wing in the centre. Its width narrows by half near the costa. The veins are also yellow almost to the margin. The hindwing is almost covered entirely with yellow, leaving only the base and the margin brown, its middle is being slightly darker yellow. A black lunule, surrounded by a lighter edge is found at the tornus and the base of the hairtail. New records. The species was described from a male holotype, collected in the Liberian Nimba Mountains (ENNR, Cellcom Road 1000 - 1100 m). It was predicted to occur in upland forests in the Nimbas or to be patchily distributed in mountainous areas in the Guinea Highlands (Sáfián et al. 2015). Recent field surveys revealed that P. mano occurs also in the Guinean side of Nimba Mountains in similar habitat, and a few males were also found in the Wologizi Mountains at about 800 - 850 m. There is a single male in the collection of Claudio Belcastro, collected in Ziama Forest in Guinea, at about 800 m (Belcastro pers. comm.). The first and still the only known female was found near its type locality, a forested hilltop at 1165 m in the Liberian Nimba Mountains, where a series of males were also collected (Fig. 7).	en	Sáfián, Szabolcs (2020): Description of the previously unknown sexes in four West African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) with new data on their distribution. Zootaxa 4834 (2): 219-230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4834.2.4
