Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 59. (Budapest 1967)
Vojnits, A.: The distribution and forms of the Gnophos-group (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) in Hungary. I.
Aedoeagus large, thick, cylindrical, about 3.5 times as long as wide, nearly as long as valva ; with a dark, pointed, evenly arcuate spine, about two-fifths of aedoeagal length (Fig. 3b). Valvae moderately wide, with a slight excision, costa spinose ("pecten"), sacculus strong; uncus short, robust, concave; furca rather stout, shorter and stouter than in nominate form, basally connected and incrassate (Fig. 3c, d); saccus thickOn the basis of the above considerations, there is no doubt that the population of the Mts. Börzsöny belongs to the Formenkreis of 67. pullata SCHIFF., but represents a distinct geographical subspecies. I dedicate the new taxon, by the name Gnophospullata kovácsi ssp. n., to Dr. L. KOVÁCS, for his substantial support of my investigations (Plate, fig. 9). The main differences of G. pullata pullata SCHIFF, and G. pullata kovácsi ssp. n. 7 might be summarized as follows: Discal spot Distance of post- Male genital organ median line from base G. pullata kovácsi not or hardly dis- 68.35% furca stout ssp. n. cernible on underside of wings G. pullata pullata well discernible on 60.88% furca slender SCHIFF. underside of wings Holotype male: "Börzsöny hegys., Pogányvár, 450 — 550 m, 1965. VII. 17, VOJNITS(slide No. 24, VOJNITS)". Paratypes: 2 males: "Börzsöny hegys., Pogányvár, 450 — 500 m, 1965, VII. 17, VOJNITS (slides No. 8 and 201, VOJNITS)". The Holotype is deposited in the collection of the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, the Paratypes in that of the author. Gnophos amhiguaia DUP. A European — Central Asian, montane — subalpine species (BERGMANN, 1955). The western border of its range is the Pyrenees. It is absent from a number of northern countries, e.g. England, Scandinavia, North France, Lithuania, and Esthonia, but it was found in Poland (BLESZYNSKI, 1966), and North Germany (URBAHN, 1939). Numerous localities are known in the region of the Jura and the Alps (VORBRODT, 1914), in the Pfalz (DE LATTIN, JOST, HEUSER, 1957), in Czechoslovakia (STERNECK, 1929), and Slovakia (HRUBY, 1964). It was collected also in the Balkan (DANTEE, FORSTER, OSTHELDER, 1951). Its first and sole known locality in Hungary is Szakonyfalu, where P. TALLÓS collected 5 male specimens in 1952. Szakonyfalu lies in the western confines of the country, near Szentgotthárd ; the area is in essentials at the foothills of the Alps. In the Alps, G. ambiguata advances over 2600 m a.s.l. (VORBRODT, 1914), but in the Steiermark it was captured also at a height of 600 m (HOFFMANN, KLOSS, 1914). The home locality is a hilly region, not higher than 2—300 m. This also proves that the so-called "montane" species do not insist everywhere on a given altitude above the sea level, but may thrive, in habitats of similar ecological conditions, also at elevations of merely a few hundred meters. The Szakonyfalu specimens have been, collected in the plant associations Luzulo—Fagetum and Dicrano—Pinetum callunetosum respectively (TALLÓS, 1958).
