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)

seeds of the footplants, living in a silken spinning, overwintering in the feeding place and pupating in the spring. Habitat: Colline and montane hay meadows and healthy grassland; rich fens, eu- and mesotrophic meadows and tall herb communities. Rare and local in halophytic habitats and in rock- and slope steppes. Meso- to temperate hygrophilous species. Altitude from 100 to 800 m. Comments: very local and rare on the Great Hungarian Plain, but frequent on some habitats at medium altitude in the mountains. 8. Aethes triangulana triangulana (Treitschke, 1835) (Fig. 13) References: Ács & SZABÓKY 1993, FAZEKAS 1994, 1995, 2002, RAZOWSKI 2002, SZABÓKY 1999. Distribution in Palaearctic: from Dzungarian Ala Tau (Kazakhstan) to Central Europe. According to RAZOWSKI (2002) in the north reaching Scandinavia, in south Bulgaria and Ural River, also Central Asia. Unknown in Denmark and in the British Isles. Chorotype: Asiatic-European. The distribution area in Hungary: Abasár-Pálosvörösmart, Ágasvár, (Mátra Mts.), Alattyán, Budaörs, Felsőtárkány, Fót, Gyöngyös, Gyöngyösoroszi, Kisnána, KomlóZobákpuszta, Magyarszombatfa, Mátrafüred, Mátraszentistván, Nagyvisnyó, SzalafőAlsószer, Szinpetri (Koponya-völgy), Ujszentmargita. Phenology: univoltine; flies between early June and late July. Biology: Larva probably monophagous on Veronica longifolia. No other food plant is known, but there are doubtful records that Veronica chamaedrys and V. montana may be utilised. Habitat: Ae. triangulana is a meso- and semi hygrophilous species, mainly on hills and in mountains of medium height. Water-fringing and fen tall herb communities; creek valleys often at margins of damp woodland. In Mecsek Mts (Southern Hungary) Illyrian beech and oak-hornbeam woodlands. This is a sylvan environment in a residential area, effectively a sylvan clearing, where they are private gardens and small orchards. In the immediate neighbourhood there are forests of beech and oak. Up to the year 2000, there was intensive coalmining in the area. Intensive industrial activity characterized the country for nearly 150 years, but the mines were closed in 2000 and recultivation began. Altitude from 100 m to 750 m (Mátra Mts.). Comments: According to Razowski (2002) the nominotypical subspecies is widely distributed in Europe. The subspecies excelentana (Christoph, 1881) occurs in the Far East from Japan to Ussuri and Amur Territory. 9. Aethes rutilana rutilana (Hübner, [1817]) (Fig. 14) References: FAZEKAS 1994, 1995, GOZMÁNY 1968, SZABÓKY 1982a, 1999. Distribution in Palaearctic: widespread in Palaearctic and in Nearctic Regions (ssp. canadana Razowski, 1997). Chorotype: Holarctic. The distribution area in Hungary: Ágasegyháza, Aggtelek, Barcs, Középrigóc, Darány (Kuti-őrház), Fenyőfő, Nyirád, Orgovány, Pécs (PTE arboretum). Phenology: the moths fly from the beginning of May to mid-July. Biology: larva monophagous on Juniperus communis, overwintering from autumn to spring, and pupating in April. Habitat: A typical xerothermophilous species of our southern sand dunes with Juniper steppe woodlands. Altitude from 90 m up to 400 m above sea-level. Comments: a rare species with very isolated populations in the Great Hungarian Plain. Known also from the mountains of medium altitude in Mecsek (botanical gardens) and