Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 62. (Budapest 1970)

Kovács, L.: Data to the knowledge of Hungarian Macrolepidoptera. V. The occurrence and distribution of some noctuid species (Lepidoptera) in Hungary

Map 2 : The localitites, up to the end of 1969, of Noctua interposita HÜBXER (empty circles) and Noctua orbona HFFXAGEL (full circles) in Hungary species will be found, by more intense explorations, in still many other areas. The majorit}- of exemplars have been caught by the UV light trap operating at Makkoshotyka which recommends a more frequent recourse to this source of light. The known localities of orbona is considerably less, not more than 13 in alL One of these lies in the western confines of the country (Sopron), one each in the northern part of the Mts. Bakony, the Mts. Vértes, and the Balaton Plateau, two each in the Mts. Dunazug and the hills around Buda, one in the hilly region of Gödöllő, two in the sandy district between the Danube and the Tisza, and one each in the Mts. Bükk and Bátorliget. Most specimens originate from the Mts. Dunazug, having been captured on bait on the Pilistető, nearly 700 m a.s.l. Although further localities may also be expected to be discovered for orbona, they will hardly alter the fact that it is considerably more local and seldom than interposita. 3. The distribution of Lithophane semihrunnea (HAWORTH, 1809) (Fig. 2.). The following discussion was also instigated by one of CH. BOURSIN'S papers. On the occasion of describing a subspecies (ssp. wiltshirei BOURSIN, 1962) of semibrunnea, BOURSIN also expounded the range of this species. He contends that its area, including also that of the new subspecies, extends from Iraq to NW Africa, through Anatolia, the Balkan Peninsula, Italy, France, England, and Spain. This list is, however, not wholly compatible with earlier data given in literature according to which the species had also been collected northeast to the region delineated by BOURSIN. Such localities are, e.g. Pomerania and Austria-Hungary in the STAUDINGER-KEBEL Catalogue, and also Braunschweig in HAMPSOX. SPULER also cites Pomerania and the Austro-Hungarian empire, with WARREN again enumerating the above regions in SEITZ'S work. Since specimens originating from