Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 30-31 (1985-1986) (Pécs, 1987)

Természettudományok - Uherkovich Ákos: További lepkészeti adatok a Nyugati-Mecsekből (Lepidoptera)

32 üHERKOvicH ÁKOS Further lepidopterological data from the Western Mecsek Mountains, Hungary (Lepidoptera) ÁKOS ÜHERKOVICH These examinations have been carried out on a string of low hills lying along the southern slopes of the Western Mecsek Mountains, near the village Cserkút (UTM grid BS70). The original vegetation of this area was dry oak {Quercus petraea and Qu. cerris) stands. The bulk of it had been felled hundreds of years ago, subsequently a part was used as pasture, on the other parts low and weak oak scrub forests developed with a very poor underwood vegetation. A light trap was functioned at the margin of a young oak forest in 1982 and the entire material was elaborated. Several times in 1983, the author collected on the pasture-forest with lamp and sometimes also at daytime. These collections totalled more than 11,500 specimens belonging to 506 species. The list and the number of specimens are given. Twenty-three rare or characteristic species are presented in the following section. The composition of the fauna is highly varied. Moths both of the dry southern slopes and the closed forest zone can be found here together. Some of them are very rare or rather local in Southern Transdanubia, e. g. Calophasia platyptera Esp., Periphanes del phi nii L., Calymma communimacula Den. et Schiff., Eupithecia insigniata Hbn., Chesias rufata F., Scotopteryx moeniata Scop., Perconia strigillaria Hbn. etc.. The composition of dominant species is rather unusual (Seel Tables 1 and 2).