S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 50. (Budapest, 1989)

ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK L 1989 p. 27-36 Carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) collected by light traps in apple orchards and maize stands in Hungary* By F. KÁDÁR and Gy. SZÉL (Received February 10, 1989) Abstract: Carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) collected by light traps in apple orchards and maize stands in Hungary. - A total of 55 558 specimens belonging to 141 species of carabids were collected by light traps from eight localities (apple orchard and maize stand) in Hungary. Faunistical data are given about 2 7 species considered as rare or interesting ones in Hungary. The first comprehensive compendium of the carabids known to occur in Hungary is found in the book entitled Fauna Regni Hungáriáé (Kuthy 1896). Next Csiki (1905-1908, 1946) thoroughly dealt with carabid fauna of the whole Carpathian basin partly by Kuthy's treatise, and by his own studies. No other summarization was published after these two essential works. There were however, numerous faunistical investigations in different regions of the country: e.g. in Bakony Mts. (Tóth 1973), Börzsöny Mts. (Endrodi 1974*-, Hortobágy (ötvös 1974), Southern Transdanubia (Horvatovich 1977), Békés county (Ádám 1981, 1983), Hortobágy National Park, hereafter HNP (Hieke 1983), Kiskunság National Park, hereafter KNP (Ádám and Merkl 1986). The bulk of the species referred in the papers listed above has been yielded mainly by pitfall traps, while material of light traps were sporadic and of little quantity. The aim of this paper is to describe the faunistical material of the light traps set up in eight different localities of the country. Light traps were provided by the Zoological Department of the Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in order to investigate apple orchards and maize stands from agroecological point of view. Both the place and the years of function of the light traps are showed in Fig. 1. The traps in Makó, Tükröspuszta and Zichyújfalu were set up in maize stand, while the other ones in apple orchards. The traps were fixed in two meter height, and they were equipped with directing lamella. Further informations see Kádár and Szentkirályi (1983), Mészáros et al. (1984a, 1984b) and Kádár and Lövei (1987). The list of species found in the light traps is given in the Tab. 1. The traps have caught a total of 141 species (55 558 specimens). This number comprises about 30 per cent of the total number of carabids known from Hungary. \ We have discussed 27 species in detail out of 141 species, since only a few and sporadic data of these species were available earlier concerning distribution and flight. Here we present the data of occurrence of these Hungarian ground-beetles. We disregarded here the data of Ötvös (1974) and Lovas (1976), since these data are included in the HNP report (Hieke 1983). *Maize Ecosystem Research No. 55, Apple Ecosystem Research No. 68.