S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 46/2. (Budapest, 1985)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Abstract: A list of Armenian localities complete with data is given for the fifth collecting trip made by the authors in September, 1984. The present collecting trip again has been realized through an academic agreement signed by the Armenian and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Our host was the Institute of Zoology of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. The collecting trips were organized for us by Dr. A. Y. TERTERIAN, his endeavours are duly thanked herewith. Our principal aim was to collect mostly invertebrate animals in as many localities as possible. Unfortunately, our three-week proposed collecting trip cannot boast by saying to have visited a long series of localities, let alone new ones; we cannot even say to have seen even one new locality that had not been visited before, in fact, the organization of trips was rather unsatisfactory. Since collecting around the capital In very degraded places was not our dream of a successful hunting for animals. The locality of Sovetashen was nothing better than the waste-land of a once laystall in the vicinity of the new rubbish-shoot of Yerevan. Another example might be DJrvezh, a few kilometres off the capital, here our guide took us to a much frequented mountain-side where the ground was heavily trampled upon leaving no intact vegetation and strewn with empty tins, shattered bottles and other uninviting by-products of man. Other places we reached by autobus understandably meaning a long ride, during which, many a time, I sadly recalled the wonderful trips that I experienced in the course of my previous visit to Armenia in 1977. Only in two occasions could we enjoy the advantages of a cross-country car, once to Byurakan and once to Arzakhan, in the last two days of our visit. The present collecting trip that has been the fifth one in line readily offers us the opportunity to glance back and survey the collecting localities in Armenia visited by Hungarian zoologists.From faunistical point of view it might be edifying for those also who have not been to this country to which administrative sectors our collecting localities belong. A schematic map (Fig. 1) shows the boundaries of the numbered sectors. The administrative zones are further identified by the largest towns which are not necessarily the administrative centres of that sector, but are useful landmarks to anybody wishing to see in which part of the country that particular sector lies. The Cyrillic names are transliterated according to English standards as given in any large dictionaries. The capital of Yerevan and its close environs comprise an administrative unit of its own marked on the map of Armenia by the Roman numeral: I. The 36 administrative sectors, marked by Arabic numbers, are listed below (Fig. D.The largest town of each sector is indicated in the map by a circle. Anyone looking for the largest town of the administrative sectors should find the following list helpful with the serial numbers indicated. XLVL 2 1985 p. 17-22