Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok III. - Natura Somogyiensis 12. (Kaposvár, 2008)

Fazekas Imre: The species of the genus Aethes Billberg, 1821 of Hungary (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

6. Aethes nefandana (Kennel, 1899) (Fig. 11, 29) References: BUSCHMANN 2004, FAZEKAS 1995, GOZMÁNY 1968, GOZMÁNY & SZABÓKY 1986. Distribution in Palaearctic: known from West Kazakhstan to Asia Minor, the Balkans and Central Europe (Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Austria). Chorotype: Turano-European. The distribution area in Hungary: Csepel, Gyöngyös (Sár-hegy), Izsák, Kecskemét (Nagynyír), Királyhalom, Mátra Mts. (Fallós-kút), Nagykáta, Kunpeszér, Szabadszállás. First map: Fazekas (1995: p. 42, Abb. 7.) Phenology: univoltine, the moth flies in June and July. Biology: monophagous on Eryngium campestre. The distribution of Ae. nefandana is strongly related to that of its food plant. E. campestre can be found on the plain, on the hilly-country/collin (200-700 m.). Habitat: sand steppes, lowland dry degraded grasslands (Great Hungarian Plain) and slope steppes (Mátra Mts.). Altitude from 90 m to 800 m (Mátra Mts.). Comments: a Turano-European species, local from Kazakhstan to Pannonian region. Ae. nefandana is rather frequent in, and characteristic of, our sandy plains and dunes: large series are known from Csepel island, Kunpeszér, Királyhalom, and other arid localites in the central part of Hungary (Great Hungarian Plain: Kiskunság). According to Gozmány & Szabóky (1986) this watery world of the Great Hungarian Plain is very special landscape, with charms and nuisances of its own. The permanent saline lakes are among the hottest places in Europe during the summer: they expand in springtime but recede and become very shallow by July and August, in very dry and hot summers many of them may even dry out. The third main habitat type of Ae. nefandana in Hungary is on the southern slopes of the North Hungarian Mountains of medium height, often in semi-dry grasslands established in the place of former vineyards, mostly in steppes on slopes (Mátra Mts; Gyöngyös, Sár-hegy). 7. Aethes margaritana (Haworth, [1811]) (Fig. 12) References: FAZEKAS 1994, 1995, 2002, RAZOWSKI 1996, SZABÓKY 1994, 1999. Distribution in Palaearctic: from Central Asia to Asia Minor and Western Europe. It has not been reported from some of the Balkan countries (e.g. Croatia, Slovenia). Razowski (1996) by mistake did not publish it from Hungary. Chorotype: Central Asiatic-European. The distribution area in Hungary: Agárd, Aggtelek, (Béke-barlang), Bakonybél, Balatongyörök, Budaörs, Budapest (Mátyás-hegy, Sas-hegy), Bükkzsérc, Csákberény, Csákvár, Cserépfalu, Darány (Kuti-őrház), Dinnyés ("Fertő"), Dömsöd-Apajpuszta, Egerszög, Fényespuszta, Fenyőfő, Gyöngyös (Sár-hegy), Harkány (Tenkes-hegy), Jósvafő, Kaposvár, Kárász, Kemence-patak-völgye, Királyszállás, Komjáti, Komló (Hasmány-tető, Kossuthakna, kőbánya), Komló-Zobákpuszta, Magyarszombatfa, Máriagyűd, Mátraháza, Mátraszentistván, Mátraszentlászló, Miskolc, Miskolc (Létrástető), Nadap (Csúcsos-hegy), Nagyvisnyó (Bálvány), Olaszfalu, Pákozd (Bella-fürdő, Csikmák-hegy, Kanca-hegy, Karácsony-hegy, Tompos-hegy, Tótugrás), Pázmánd (Zsidó-hegy), Pécs, (Árpád-tető, PTE-arborétum, Tettye, Vasas), Salföld, Sárkeresztúr, Sukoró, (Csúcsos-hegy, Meleg-hegy), Szabadszállás, Szalafő-Alsószer, Szin, Szinpetri (Koponya-völgy), Vérteskozma. Phenology: Bivoltine; the moth flies from May to June and from July to August. Biology: Larva polyphagous, probably preferring Achillea millefolium. Other foodplants are species ol Chamomilla, Chrysanthemum, Matricaria and Tanacetum. The larva from mid-September to mid-May and from June to July, feeding on the flowers and