Az Alpokalja természeti képe közlemények 8. (Praenorica - Folia historico-naturalia. Szombathely, 2005)

György, Zoltán–Merkl, Ottó: Seed beetles preserved in the Savaria Museum, Hungary, with a national checklist of the family (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)

PRAENORICA FOLIA HISTORICO-NATURALIA VIII 2005 SEED BEETLES PRESERVED IN THE SA VARIA MUSEUM, HUNGARY, WITH A NATIONAL CHECKLIST OF THE FAMILY (COLEOPTERA: BRUCHIDAE) GYÖRGY, Zoltán

1 & MERKL, Ottó

1 Seed beetles preserved in the Savaria Museum, Hungary, with a national checklist of the family (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) — A list of 30 species of Bruchidae deposited in the Savaria Museum (Szombathely, Western Hungary) complemented with label data is given. A checklist of the Bruchidae of Hungary (10 genera and 49 species) is presented. Eight species are deleted from the Hungarian faunal list. INTRODUCTION The material of Bruchidae preserved in the Savaria Museum (Szombathely, Vas county, Western Hungary) contains 30 species belonging to five genera. The specimens were collected in various parts of Hungary, but surprisingly, Vas county itself is represented by a relatively small material. The majority of the material was purchased in the early 1990s from Attila PODLUSSÁNY, a private collector in Budapest. This paper is devoted for listing the data of the specimens and presents a checklist of Bruchidae of Hungary. JERMY & SZENTESI (2003) emphasized that most of the host plant data mentioned in the European taxonomical and faunistic publications on Bruchidae should be considered unreliable because these were not based on rearings or the identification of the bruchid species was uncertain. In their paper (JERMY & SZENTESI 2003) the authors presented a number of host plants from which they reared correctly identified bruchids. These are listed in the 'List of species' as reliable host plant data in Hungary. Identification was made by the use of KASZAB (1967), BOROWIEC (1988), STREJÇEK (1990) and the reference collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, which contains a number of specimens authoritatively determined by K.-W. ANTON (Emmendingen, Germany). Nomenclature follows mainly the above-mentioned works as well as ANTON (2001) and Cox (2001). Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology H-1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13., Hungary E-mails: gyorgy@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu

, merkl@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu