Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok IV. - Natura Somogyiensis 15. / Miscellanea 4. (Kaposvár, 2009)
Dobosz Roland - Ábrahám Levente: Adatok Törökország kardosfátyolka faunájához (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae)
■ 114 Natura Somogyiensis In the first half of the 20th century - maybe because of the effects of the two World Wars - only scarce data (Alexandrova-Martynova 1930, Esben-Petersen 1932) arose about the country’s Nemopteridae fauna, for about 70 years. From the 1970s on, however, the exploration of the local fauna started to increase dynamically. Austrian neuropterologists, in particular, have contributed immensely to the exploration and description of Turkey’s Neuroptera fauna. This is the period when the monographs describing the majority of the species in the region were produced. The taxonomic papers by Hölzel (1968, 1975) Aspöck et al. (1980, 1984) have outstanding importance in the research into the Nemopteroidae fauna. At the same time, an increasing amount of faunistic data were brought to light (Popov 1970, Gepp 1974). The fundamentals of neuropterological research in Turkey were laid down by the comprehensive faunistical publications by Sengonca (1974, 1981). Later on, it was researchers from Central-European countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary) who visited Turkey frequently with the aim of better exploring its fauna (eg. Kacirek 1998). After the turn of the centuries, Turkish neuropterologists published their papers one after the other about the rich Neuroptera fauna inhabiting vast areas, reporting about the first appearance of newer and newer Nemopteridae species and about faunal surveys (Ari, Kiyak 2000,2004, Ari et al. 2008, Canbulat 2002, 2007, Canbulat, Kiyak 2005, Kocák, Kemal 2002, 2008; Özbay et al. 2005, Satar 2005, Satar, Özbay 2004, Satar et al. 2004, 2007). The main purpose of the current study is to publish faunal data from Turkey, based on specimens preserved in two Central-European museums, thus contributing to Turkey’s basic fauna survey and fauna mapping. Material and methods On the basis of sampling possibilities, the Nemopteridae family can be grouped into two categories whose external morphological differences are quite striking. One of the groups is made up by Nemoptera species with coloured wings, flying in the daytime hours. The other group contains the nocturnal species with transparent wings including Croce, Dielocroce and Lertha. The species of Croce and Dielocroce fly exclusively at night, and there are only occasional specimens found during daytime hours in places where they are found in masses at nighttime. Lertha species, too, have nocturnal activity, but they are often found sitting on flowers, feeding on nectar at daytime, especially in the morning hours. In accordance with all these, two different sampling methods were used for collecting Nemopteridae species, differing on the activity patterns of the different species. Nemoptera species were captured individually using butterfly net during the morning period before the hot noon hours and in the late afternoon after the heat has receded. For collecting nocturnal species we used transportable light-traps which were operated with light tubes of UV-rich spectra and black light type of tubes. The collected material was deposited in two museum collections in Poland (USMB, Bytom) and Hungary (SCM, Kaposvár) respectively.
