Ötven év változásai a magyar Microlepidoptera faunában. Fifty years of changes in the Hungarian Lepidoptera Fauna (Lepidoptera).
Abstract
Present paper introduces the changes in the knowledge on the Hungarian Microlepidoptera fauna of the last fifty years between the two milestone publications, from the first comprehensive checklist of Gozmány published in 1968 to the most recent list of Pastorális & Buschmann at 2018. The authors mention all species recorded from Hungary for the first time during this period and list those which have been omitted from the checklist due to various reasons. Short biographies are presented about the famous Hungarian experts of Microlepidoptera, László Gozmány and József Szőcs whose work established the scientific basis of our knowledge about the Hungarian Microlepidoptera fauna, as well as about their most successful Hungarian and foreign followers. Summarising the above-mentioned changes the authors state that the latest catalogue of the Hungarian Microlepidoptera fauna published contemporarily by the authors of the present paper includes altogether 2313 species belonging into 57 families.
In this paper, the author reports 304 Tortricidae species known from Mátra up to the end of 2023, based on his own collections and the data published so far in the domestic literature.
In this publication, the author describes the faunistic data of 3097 specimens of 180 species of Coleophoridae from his private collection in Jászberény, Hungary
Abstract. The author arranged his private Tortricidae collection as well as the material of the Hungarian Natural History
Museum from the Carpathian Basin. The private collection contains, as of late 2021, 8905 specimens of 411 species.
8845 specimens of 381 species were collected in 93 localities of Hungary, and 60 specimens of 30 specis
were colleczed by foreign colleagues, outside Hungary. The latter material contains 14. Species still not known from
Hun-gary. Full data of all specimens from the private collection of the author ar given.
Abstract: Between 2018 and 2021, the author reorganized the Tortricidae collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest. He annotated the data on the specimens examined and compiled a catalog. The identified specimens were labeled with so-called unique name tags. The revised collection contains 28311 specimens and 520 species, collected by 190 collectors from 897 sites in Hungary and 164 sites abroad. The collectors and their work are presented individually. The species are listed in taxonomic order. The collecting sites are described first, followed by information on the flight periods. For several species, comments and observations are made. Species erroneously reported from Hungary are discussed in detail. In his opinion, 19 species are deleted from the Hungarian fauna. The reason given is that no specimens are available. A particular value of the study is that it reviews the work of all the collectors by name.
Data are reported on the geographical distribution of Agriphila brioniella
(ZERNY, 1914) and A. latistria (HAWORTH, 1811). A. vasilevi GANEV, 1983
and A . asiatica GANEV & HACKER, 1984 are synonymized with A. brioniella.
The taxon vallicolella (COSTA, 1885) is considered to be only a form of A.
latistria as it occurs throughout the range of the species and cannot be
distinguished on the basis of genital, ecological or phenological characters.
New series on the critical Hungarian moths, with key to species. Data are reported on the faunistic data of Capperia britanniodactyla and C. celeusi in Hungary. Structure of genitalia and morphological characteristics of wings are figured. According to the author, C. britanniodactyla does not occur in Hungary, and there is no voucher specimen in the Hungarian collections. The authors did not recognise C. celeusi which had been misidentified as C. britanniodactyla. It is necessary to delete C. britanniodactyla from the Hungarian register. C. celeusi is found in several areas of the Great Hungarian Plain and in the southern marginal areas of the Hungarian mountains of medium height. With an English summary and 8 figures.
This part of the Microlepidoptera collection of the Mátra Museum (from the Micropterigidae species to the end of Gelechidae) summed up by now consists of 5704 specimens of 312 Hungarian moth species. The collection merged into one by two different collections has been revised on the basis of the newly published system and nomenclature: "Checklist of the Fauna of Hungary, Volume 2.; Microlepidoptera".
Author presents the occurence of moth species, Aristotelia decoratella (Staudinger, 1879). This species was unknown in Hungary earlier.
Data of 95 specimens of 66 species are published. 64 species proved to be new for the collection of the Museum.
The Coleophora frischella-species group, which includes eight Hungarian species, is revised the authors. Many records of several Hungarian species are based misidentification, erroneous, or unreliable locality data. Recent research has not confirmed of some species its presence but presumably many specimens are wrongly labelled. Those keys based on external characters are given for all species. He analyzed the habitats and the Hungarian distribution of the species. Three species new to the fauna of Hungary: Coleophora paramayrella Nel, 1993; Coleophora aleramica Baldizzone & Stübner, 2007; Coleo-phora variicornis Toll, 1952. Text in Hungarian with 29 figures.
The occurrence of Pelecystola frauduluntella (Zeller, 1852) has been revealed in the Zemplén Mountains, Senyő valley, NE Hungary after Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden. The habitat approx. 500 meters above sea level is situated in a birch (Betula pendula) and a mixed hardwood forest stand with blueberries (Vaccinium sp.). In the middle of the 19th century the holotype was collected in Slovenia, while the newer occurrences are only from the past 10 years.
The author announces the presence of Capperia fusca (Hofmann, 1898) in Hungary, the first record of the taxon in the Pannonian biogeographical Region. He describes the habitat and gives a photograph of the species, drawing of the genitalia and distribution map. With S figures.