Uherkovich Ákos: A Villányi-hegység botanikai és zoológiai alapfelmérése (Dunántúli Dolgozatok Természettudományi Sorozat 10., 2000)
Ábrahám Levente: Alderfly (Megaloptera) and lacewing (Neuroptera) fauna of the Villány Hills, South Hungary. - A Villányi-hegység nagyszárnyú (Megaloptera) és recésszárnyú (Neuroptera) faunája.
262 DUNÁNTÚLI DOLGOZATOK (A) TERMÉSZETTUDOMÁNYI SOROZAT 10. (2000) The steep, rocky slopes covered by limestone- and dolomite-based open cliff grasslands and white oak scrub woodlands face to the south in a mosaic pattern. These thermophilous, xerothermic habitats diverge positively in their temperatures from the local climate. Thus, because of this area, the diversity of the insect fauna, including lace wings, on the southern slopes is low in summer, since these places become very dry each and every year. Chrysopa walked, Chrysopa phyllochroma, Chrysopa farmosa seem to be typical of these thermophilous scrub woodland-grassland mosaics. The vegetation and habitats on the top of the hill range is practically similar to the plant association found on the southern slopes, but the woodlands are denser here than on the slope, for there are thicker rendzina soil layers. Pine plantations (Pinus nigra) can also occur sporadically there, thus Aleuropteryx loewii, Helicoconis lutea, Hemerobius nitidulus, Chrysopa dorsalis, Chrysoperla meditarranea occurring here show an association with the occurrence of pines. One of the most characteristic lacewings on the top of the hill is Mantispa styriaca living in the grassland mosaics, but we did not succeed in recording it in grasslands of the southern slopes. The composition of the lacewing species in the white oak woodlands situated on the top of the hills is very similar to the ones taken in turkey oak woodlands on the north-western part of the hills, although their abundances are different. The characteristic species of the thermophilous woodlands, turkey oak woodlands and white oak scrub woodlands are Coniopteryx renale, Coniopteryx haematica, Coniopteryx esbenpeterseni, Nineta quadarramensis, Chrysopa viridana Fig. 11. Distribution of the relative frequency of the common species according to the different habitats.
