Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok V. - Natura Somogyiensis 17. (Kaposvár, 2010)

FAZEKAS, I.: A magyar Alucitidae fauna előzetes atlasza és névjegyzéke (Lepidoptera)

258 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS Material and methods The information presented here is taken from available literature and from Alucitidae specimens personally identified by the author. Where possible, the most recent literary sources have been used. Over 600 specimens have been examined, among them those in private Collections and in the following museums and institutions: Komló, Pécs, Kaposvár, Zirc, Szombathely, Budapest, Gyöngyös. Distribution maps of the species show the hypothetical resident distribution area (grey), combined with localities from which specimens have been examined (black dots). A brief account of Hungarian landscape types The geographical distribution of the taxa is presented in accordance with the six Hungarian macroregions, and is shown to be exceedingly different from region to region (Fig. 1). (1) Great Hungarian Plain (=HP); (2) Little Plain (=LP); (3) West Hungarian Borderland (=WB); (4) Transdanubian Hills (=TH); (5) Transdanubian Mountains (=TM); (6) North Hungarian Mountains (=NM). (1) The Great Hungarian Plain Flat plains, 75-200 m. Plain with moderately continental climate, landscape types predominantly used for agriculture. On the Great Hungarian Plain one finds a more severe summer microclimate, however, than is generally prevalent in forested regions of central Europe, since the combination of open steppe and soda flats produces often relatively high surface temperatures during the summer. Average temperatures for the plain are 22°C in July and —2°C in January. Recorded maximum and minimum extremes are about 39°C and -28°C. Natural vegetation: Oak forests and grassland on sand, loess steppe, alkaline vegetation on solonchalk alluvial forests and swamps. The Hungarian Plain is perhaps a typical example of the steppe or other grassland habitats favoured by many Alucitidae, as far as is known, although the moths may actually prefer slight hillsides on the periphery of steppes. (2) Little Plain Flat plains, 75-200 m. Alluvial plain; cultivated grassland with high groundwater table and hygromorphous soils. Natural vegetation: alluvial forests and swamps, and at higher elevations oak forests and grassland on sand as well as loess steppe. (3) West Hungarian Borderland Valleys, foothills, mountains of medium altitude with broad ridges, 150-883 m. Eroded hills in the sub alpine regions on brown loess and pseudogleyeus soils with mosaics of forests mixed with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) partly used for agriculture, as well as eroded hills (250-350) with lessivated brown forest soil on brown loess; partly used for agriculture. Natural vegetation: mainly Illyrian oak-hornbeam forests as well as Illyrian beech forests and oak forests mixed with Scots pine. (4) Transdanubian Hills Valleys, hills, foothills, mountains of medium altitude, 150-682 m. Mainly in the west fixed sandy plain with minor dunes, cultivated grassland on brown earth, locally with forestation and orchards. In the east at first independent hilly regions dissected by