Folia Historico-Naturalia Musei Matraensis - A Mátra Múzeum Természetrajzi Közleményei 19. (1994)

Ákos Uherkovics–Sára Nógrádi: Further studies on caddisfly (Trichoptera) fauna of the Northern Mountains, Hungary

FOLIA HISTORICO NATURALIA MUSEI MATRAENSIS 1994 19: 77-95 Further studies on caddisfly (Trichoptera) fauna of the Northern Mountains, Hungary ÁKOS UHERKOVICH & SÁRA NÓGRÁDI UHERKOVICH, Á., NÓGRÁDI, Sára: Further studies on the caddisfly (Trichoptera) fauna of the Northern Mountains, Hungary. Abstract. Several new data were get from the region since the previous paper on this topic was published. These new faunistic records are listed and a short discussion is given. Synopsis of all the species found in the Northern Mountains is presented by a table. Altogether 156 species occur there representing 76.8 p. с of the total Hungarian Trichoptera fauna. Introduction The history of the trichopterological research of the Northern Mountains was sketched out by one of the previous papers published by the authors (NÓGRÁDI, UHERKOVICH 1988). Since the mentioned work some additional papers have been published giving new faunistic data from the same region, e. g. the study of Nógrádi, which revised the three largest Hungarian public collections, where important caddisfly materials taken in the Northern Mountains were deposited (NÓGRÁDI 1989a, 1989b, 1989c). Very recently the Trichoptera fauna of the Bükk National Park and its environs have been summarized (NÓGRÁDI et al. 1994). Some other papers also contain caddisfly data from the area. During the last six years relative large materials have been elaborated from the area of the mountains. The samples originated from several sources. The light trap network of the Forestry Research Institute supplied many caddisfly specimens from several sites. Light traps were laid by the Mátra Museum (Gyöngyös), for entomological purpose. These traps also provided some Trichoptera material. The authors also had a few collecting trips in the Northern Mountains, and these furnished again important Trichoptera samples. Some colleagues also passed some caddisfly materials from their collections. The unpublished data of Újhelyi 's collection (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest) concerning this area also are taken into consideration of the present work. The Trichoptera fauna of the Aggtelek National Park region is not discussed by the present paper. For this puipose a separate study in planned to be published in the future. The collected material and the localities Altogether a few thousand caddisfly specimens were elaborated from 45 sites of the Northern Mountains since our previous paper had been published (NÓGRÁDI, UHERKOVICH 1988). Further results have been (NÓGRÁDI et al. 1994) or will be published by the authors, too. All the results of the published papers aie taken into consideration in the synoptic table. 77