O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 67. (Budapest, 2006)

Checklist of the Fauna of Hungary Volume 3. Macrolepidoptera Varga, Z., Ronkay, L., Bálint, Zs., László, Gy. M. & Peregovits, L. This is the third volume of the series "Checklist of the fauna of Hungary" launched in 2001 published by the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The pres­ent volume follows the Microlepidoptera (Vol. 2) making complete the checklist of the Lepidoptera fauna of Hungary. The volume divided into three chapters: intro­duction, checklist and index of scientific names and their authors. The annotated checklist contains, besides the taxonomic list of the Macro­lepidoptera taxa recorded from Hungary, a double biogeographical categorisation of each species. The major part of the extensive Introduction list, shortly explain % and illustrate by examples the biogeographic and ecological categories used. The faunal type defined as "an assemblage or aggregation of groups of species-group level taxa (or in certain cases subspecies) which can be attributed to given core areas", while the faunal element defined as a species-group level taxon belonging to the given faunal type, indicating their type of distribution in a finer scale. Ten faunal types (number of faunal elements in parentheses) are represented in the Hungarian Macrolepidoptera fauna: Extra-Palaearctic (10), Transpalaearctic (4), Boreo-continental "Siberian" (4), Southern continental (6), Western Palaearctic (11), Pannonian endemic (1), Carpathian (4), Alpine (5), Xeromontane (2), Eremic (2). Altogether 106 faunal component categories describing the ecological de­mands of the species based mostly on the bionomy and habitat requirement of the given species. In the Checklist chapter the following information given for all the 1259 spe­cies (552 genera) listed: the generic name with the author and the year of publica­tion; the valid name of the species-group name with the author and the year of publication in the current generic combination; the faunal type and faunal element categorization of the given species, completed with the faunal component cate­gory; and when necessary, a concluding remark is given providing brief details of taxonomic and/or nomenclatural information concerning with the taxon under discussion. Lepidopterans play an important role in ecosystems and are equally favoured by professionals and non-professionals. Based on the information provided in this volume readers can characterise not only a given species but will be able to evalu­ate a given area through the qualification of the composition of its lepidopteran fauna. We presume that beside basic sciences it will have a wide and successful ap­plication in the practice of agriculture, forestry and nature conservation as well. ISBN 963 7093 88 5 [first edition in Hungarian, 2004] ISBN 963 7093 89 3 [second edition in English, 2005] Soft bound, 114 pages S I Orders should be sent to the Library of the Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary, Pax: (36-1) 3172320 E-mail: angela@libr.nhmus.hu

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