Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

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64 and KÁLMÁN SZEŐKE (1975) on the Hanság. The former Győr-Sopron County Plant Protection and Agrochemical Station placed two light traps at Fertőrákos in 1978, aimed at clarifying the phenology and relative weights of moth pests of reeds. The entire material caught in 1978-80 was processed by ZOLTÁN MÉSZÁROS, CSABA SZABÓKY and LÁSZLÓ RONKAY, who found 214 species lepidopterous species, of which 92 were moths and 122 macrolepidopterans. Among the curiosities and rarities were Arenostola phragmitidis, Sterrhopteryx gozmanyi, Mythimna straminea and Apamea unanimis (MÉSZÁROS and SZABÓKY 1981; MÉSZÁROS et al. 1981 and 1983). ZOLTÁN MÉSZÁROS and ANDRÁS VOJNITS (1967) also studied distribution and numerical fluctuations of moth pests. Collections in recent decades have provided a comprehensive picture of the lepidopteran fauna of the FertőHanság National Park. The findings and earlier literary data have been collated and subjected to critical analysis. The total number of 734 Heterocera species (Diurna and Macroheterocera) known in the Hanság area is surprisingly high for the relatively small size and less complex relief of the district (BENEDEK et al. 2002). The most typical forested habitats of the Hanság marshlands are various types of alder woods. These typically contain numerous alder and birch-feeding fauna (Drepana curvatula, Plemyria rubiginata, Acronicta leporina, A. alni, A. cuspis, A. strigosa and Lithophane furcifera, connected mainly with Alnus spp, and Cyclophora albipunctata, Epirrita autumnata, Epione vespertaria, Falcaria lacertinaria, Achlya flavicomis, Furcula bicuspis and Pheosia gnoma preferring Betula spp). Another group of species inhabit the marshy woodlands, but feed usually on low vegetation or in the shrub zone. The faunistically most interesting of these are Eupithecia pygmaeata, Stegania cararia, Chariaspilates formosaria, Apamea aquila, A. unanimis, Lamprotes c-aureum, Mormo maura, Naenia typica and Mesogona oxalina. The next type of hygrophilous woodland fauna is the group of species inhabiting the Salix-Populus stands and gallery woodland. The characteristic taxa of this group in the Hanság are Cyclophora pendularia, Idaea emarginata, Eilicrinia cordiaria, Eupithecia succenturiata, Phyllodesma ilicifolia, Gastropacha populifolia, Clostera anachoreta, Centra erminea, Brachylomia viminalis and Orthosia populeti. The most important fauna species of the ash-oak gallery stands is Lithophane semibrunnea, which is quite widespread in Europe, but everywhere local and very rare. The last major silvicolous group of the Euro-Siberian/Siberian hygrophilous fauna requires a cool and humid microclimate in their habitats. Most species in this group are characteristic for the meso-montane, usually rather closed forest types and/or the woodlands of hilly and montane-stream valleys. There is a surprisingly large number of such species in the Hanság, despite the lowland conditions; several 'altoherbosa' species (Scopula umbelaria, Euphyia unangulata, Xanthorrhoe quadrifasciaria, Atolmis rubricollis, Setina irrorella, Euchalcia modestoides, Diachrysia 64 ISSEKUTZ, L. 1971. Die Schmetterlingsfauna des südlichen Burgenlandes. I. Macrolepidoptera. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland 46:1-165.