Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
Phylum Arthropoda 143 species Polyommatus amandus (FAZEKAS 1987). However, he focused his researches on microlepidopterous species (FAZEKAS 1992a and 1992c), analysing in detail the species of Cochylidae, Pterophoridae, Crambinae and Zygaenidae that occur in the region, all of which are endangered, based on the present extent of their populations (cf. BÁLINT 1991). Further intensive research into protecting them is needed. His next study (FAZEKAS 1992b) presented Pyralidae species new to the fauna of Western Hungary: Catoptria myella, Dioryctria schuetzeella and Ephestia figulilella. He wrote up the moths in the Lepidoptera collection of IMRE BALOGH, many collected in the West Hungarian border region (FAZEKAS 1992d). While examining two Agriphila species (A. geniculea and A. tolli), FAZEKAS found, based on their distribution in Hungary, that they form a vicarial pair of species or monophyletic unit. Although earlier erroneous identifications meant that A. geniculea was thought to be a common, ubiquitous species, 62 revision showed it was confined in Hungary to the West Hungarian border region, the Vas Ridge district, the Göcsej and the Bakony, while the other species occurs in the other parts of the country (FAZEKAS 1994). This finding is contradicted by the Őrség species list of CSABA SZABÓKY (1995), which shows both species occurring. The first part of one of his most recent summarizing studies examines the plume moths (Pterophorinae and Agdistinae) of Hungary (FAZEKAS, 2000), listing as the species found there Pterophorus pentadactylus, Merrifieldia baliodactyla, Porrittia galactodactyla, Pselnophorus heterodactylus, Emmelina argoteles, Hellinsia ostreodactylus, Oidematophorus tephradactylus, O. carphodactylus, O. inulae and O. constanti. The work of CSABA SZABÓKY in the last decade has been especially productive. He found in Western Hungary several species new to the Hungarian fauna, some self-collected and some while revising collections belonging to lepidopterist colleagues. Kétvölgy produced this country's first specimen of Cedestis subfasciella, which feeds on Pinus species. The same article reports on the first collection of Crambus ericella, in Sopron (SZABÓKY 1978). The Forestry Scientific Institute light trap at Sopron (Fáber-rét) caught a specimen of Semioscopis oculella on March 10, 1978. An earlier example from the same location had been awaiting identification in the Hungarian Natural History Museum collection since 1975. A specimen of Agonopterix subpropinquella, also new to the Hungarian fauna, was collected at Sopron (Harkai-domb) on November 12, 1978 (SZABÓKY 1980). Three other species new to the fauna that joined the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum were Acleris shepherdana (Nagyrákos), Spilonota laricana (Őriszentpéter, Sopron and Sopron: Fáber-rét) and Aethes piercei (Sopron: Fáber-rét—SZABÓKY 1981). The 1983 material from the light trap operated at Magyarszombatfa by ÁKOS UHERKOVICH included the first occurrence in Hungary of the leafroller Hedya dimidiana. Several speci62 GOZMÁNY, L. 1963. Molylepkék VI.— Microlepidoptera VI. In Magyarország Állatvilága— Fauna Hungáriáé XVI(7), 289 pp. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
