Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 60. (Budapest 1968)
Kovács, L.: Data to the knowledge of Hungarian Macrolepidoptera III. New taxa from the subfamily Hadeninae
8 August, 1960, 1 çf ; all collected by the light-trap network. — Vörs, 14 ( lçf), 20 (1 çf) May, 1950; 13 August, 1950, 1 9, leg. L. KOVÁCS; Esztergom, 15 August, 1943, 1 çf, leg. L. VIDA; Fehérvárcsurgó, 11 May, 1949, 1 çf, leg. I. FORSTNER; Pákozd, 24 (1 çf), 28 (2 çf) July, 1948, leg. L. KOVÁCS; 29 July, 1949, 2^29, leg. L. GOZMÁNY; Pomáz, 25 July, 1945, 1 9, leg. L. KOVÁCS; Ócsa, 19 July, 1947, 1 çf, leg. L. KOVÁCS. III. In the collection of L. KÉZBÁNYAI, Budapest: Stájer-házak, Kőszeg, 22 July, 1964, 1 çf ; Somhegy-puszta, Bakonybél, 25 May, 1967, 1 çf ; 2 June, 1 çf ; Balatonszabadifürdő, 3 August, 1962, 1 9 ! a ll collected by light-traps. IV. In the collection of the Bakony Museum, Veszprém: Somhegy-puszta, Bakonybél, 5 June, 1967, 1 9 î 30 J ul y, 1 cf '•> collected by light-trap. V. In the collection of the Natural History Museum, Vienna : Wien, May, 1 çf, leg. HÖFER; Wien (Donau-Auen), 5 August, 1933; 5 May 1934, 2 çf, leg. Pv. KITSCHELT; Wien (Umgebung), April, 1932, 1 9 (e. 1.), leg. R. BERGER; Ober-Weiden (N. Ö.), 5 May, 1927, 1 cf ; 26 May, 1928, 1 $ ; 5 May, 1932, 1 çf, leg. Dr. SCHAWERDA; 12 May, 1928, 1 9, ( e- M> leg- Dr. SCHEMA; 4 August, 1929, 2 9> leg. I. PREISSECKER; Bruck a. L. (Spittlberg), 20 July, 1936, 1 çf, leg. I. PREISECKER; Krakau, 20 May, 1892, 1 çf 1 9 , Coll. PRINZ. Localities in Hungary. (Map 1.) The new species was most frequently encountered in the northwestern and northern parts of the country. Of the 63 known localities, 14 fall between the western confines of the country and the western slopes of the Mts. Bakony, 7 are situated around the Balaton, 21 lie in the northeastern section of the Transdanubia and the abutting hilly region near Gödöllő, and 10 are located in the Northern Range. Toward the south and the southeast, the number of localities decreases. There are 5 more in the Transdanubia, largely along the line connecting the upper reaches of the river Kapos and the mouth of the Sió. The southern limit of its range is considerably further up in the north in the area between the Danube and the Tisza (Tass and Kecskemét), and the farthest north beyond the Tisza (Mezőtúr, Mikepércs, and toward the east in Kállósemjén and Kisvárda). The new species has hitherto not been collected in our higher mountainous ranges, thus in the Central Mecsek, the higher elevations of the Mts. Bakony, the Mts. Mátra, not above 500 m in the Mts. Bükk, or between the rivers Bodva and Hernád, nor in the Mts. Zemplén (except for their southern confines), in the southern zone of the Transdanubia, the Great Plains, and in the southern and northeastern regions beyond the Tisza. In Hungary, the first specimen was captured about 10—15 years after the discovery of the species. According to ABAFI— AIGNER, it was R. ANKER who first collected it in Pusztapó near Mezőtúr (1), while I. FRIVALDSZKY relates his own datum from Peszér (9). In the last century, it occurred also in Budapest, but merely one specimen in each of the recorded sites. Though the species is sensitive to light, greater numbers were collected only by the continuously functioning light-traps. Ecological and cenological characterization of the news species. According to the Central-European literature it has a number of foodplants. The majority of the cited foodplants belong to the far-ranging Compositae, hence no specific preference may influence its distribution. It seems indubitable, on the other hand, that the species has a certain requirement of moisture, since its most favoured habitats lie in the humid, moderately warm regions of the country, whereas the species is absent from the southern, grassy slopes of the Central Range as well as the extensive, arid, grassy areas of the Great Plains. I had once personally observed its requirement of humidity. In the environs of Pomáz, I found only a single specimen during 2 years of continuous lepidopterological activities, at a site where the seeping waters of a well keep the surrounding ground constantly wet. — However, the species also has a certain demand for heat, because its known localities are the open countryside, the plain and hilly meadows,
