S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 33/1. (Budapest, 1980)

FOLIA XLI (XXXIII). 1. ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK 1980 p. 67-73 Data to the knowledge of the natural foodplants of Lepidopterous larvae in Hungary By B. HERCZIG, L. RONKAY and Cs. SZABÓKY (Received December 1, 1979) Abstract: The results of rearings of 107 lepidopterous species: new foodplant or locality data, observations of phenological and of ethological importance. It is now nearly twenty years ago that P. TALLOS - instigated by L. KOVÁCS planned a permanent column in theFolia Entomologica Hungarica for the publication of results concerning the rearing of larvae by Hungarian lepidopterists. The aim was a thorough knowledge of the foodplants of our home macrolepidoptei >us larvae (TALLÓS, 1961). Since that time, merely a handful of such reports have actuaUy been published, namely by SZŐCS (1963, 1971) and by MÉSZÁROS (1969, 1972, 1974). By the submission of our present paper, we propose to continue this series - a project which had unfortunately sunk almost into oblivion. Notes on some ethological characteristics will also be included. The sequence of the species is based on HARTIG and HEINICKE (1975) for the Noctuids, on HERBULOT (1973, cit. KOCH 1976) for the Geometrids and on BOURSIN (1968) for some other families', tarval materials, additional to those collected by the authors, had also been taken by Zs. BÁLINT, Gy. FÁBIÁN and G. RONKAY. NOLIDAE Celama cicatricalis Den. et Schiff. - Quercus cerris: Pomáz, Kőhegy, 8. V. 1977, no imagos hatched. ARCTIDAE Diaphora mendi

ca CI. - Taraxacum officinale, Ficaria verna: Bp. Irhásárok, 25. IV. 1976., imagos: 7-9. II. 1977. (3 6, 3 o); Lycium halimifolium : Budaörs, 27. VI.1977., imagos: 30-31. I. 1978. (1 5, 3 o). Ocnogyna parasita Hbn. - Adonis vernalis: Pomáz, Oszolytető, 27. V. 1979. pupa dried out; Echium vulgare: Bp. Tétényi fennsik, 21. VI. 1978, images: 5. III. 1979. (4 p). Arctinia caesarea Goeze - Achillea millefolium: Budaörs, 3. VII. 1976, imago: 10. III. 1977. The pupae of Arctiid species, living in warm and dry swards, rest immediately under the soil surface and their external covering dries out completely by the onset of autumn -