Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 44-45 (1999-2000) (Pécs, 2002)

Természettudományok - Sára Nógrádi–Ákos Uherkovich: Trichoptera from the Balkans and Asia Minor in Hungarian and a Dutch collection

A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 44-45 (1999-2000) 33-42 Pécs, 2002 Trichoptera from the Balkans and Asia Minor in Hungarian and a Dutch collection Ákos UHERKOVICH & Sára NÓGRÁDI UHERKOVICH, Á., NÓGRÁDI, S.: Trichoptera from the Balkans and Asia Minor in Hungarian collections and a Dutch institute. Abstract 140 species were collected by members of several expeditions to Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey between the years 1975 and 1995. All data are listed with some comments. 5 species {Hydropsyche botosaneanui Marinkovic, Cheumatopsyche prosessuata Mart., Micropterna fissa McL., Micropterna testacea Gmelin and Mesophylax impunctatus McL.) are new records for the fauna of Turkey. With 1 figure. Introduction During the last two decades - between 1975 and 1995 several collecting expeditions and other trips were organized to countries in the Mediterranean, mostly by Hungarian amateur and professional lepidopterologists, to study the interesting and relatively unknown fauna of the countries of the Balkans and Asia Minor. They collected several ten thousand Lepidoptera specimens, mostly Noctuidae but also species of other families, and certain parts of these results have been published. Among others some new species were found and described. Members of these expeditions sometimes collected other insect groups, thus also caddisflies, occasionally or systematically. During the last two decades relatively large material accumulated, mostly in the collection of the Janus Pannonius Museum (Pécs), although some of the material is deposited in the Hungáriái Natural History Museum (Budapest). A smaller amount of material is preserved in the Zoological Museum of the Amsterdam University; these caddisflies were also elaborated. We also organized collecting expeditions to Bulgaria in 1985 and 1988, and collected occasionally as well in Bulgaria and Greece four times. Methods, material The most frequent collecting method of lepidopterologists were night collecting on light and light-trapping by semi-automatic traps. We often collected with nets along smaller and larger streams during the daytime, with this method having proved very fruitful in the higher mountains of Bulgaria. The materials were preserved in dry condition, sometimes in alcohol (ethanol or iso-propyle-alcohol), with the correct locality data and collection date always being indicated. The elaboration was continuous and the materials of the Janus Pannonius Museum were placed into its European Trichoptera Collection. Altogether 139 species were studied from 94 localities of four countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey. Bulgaria 1. Belogradöik 2. Boiana, Vitosa 3. Borovec, Tâmna Bistra, 1480 m 4. Fazanovo (со. Burgas) 5. Govedarci, Goliama Lopusnitza, 1280 m 6. Govedarci, Maliovitza camping, 1250-1300 m 7. Govedarci, Preka reka 8. Kostinbrod 9. Mala Crkva, Cerni Iskar, 1080 m 10. Melnik-RoDen 11. Petrohanski prohod, 1400 m 12. Pirin Mts., Banderitza House, 1750 m 13. Pirin Mts., Bansko, Demianitza river, 1050 m 14. Pirin Mts., Muratovo Lake, 2300-2400 m 15. Pirin Mts., Vichren, 2100 m 16. Pirin Mts., Vichren House, 1950-2200 m 17. Rila Mts., Partizanska Poliana, 1600-1700 m 18. Rila Mts., Ribni Ezero, 2100 19. Rila Mts., Rilski Monastery, 1150 m 20. Rila Mts., Semkovo, 1500-1800 m 21. Rila Mts., VeliLâk 22. Rila Mts., Yundola, 1500 m 23. Rila village, 600 m 24. Rodope Mts., Őudnite Mostove, 1500-1700 m 25. Rodope Mts., Zâbardo 26. Struma valley, Kresna 27. Vidin, Nora camping Greece 1. Crete, Kedros Mts., Vatos 2. Crete, Lasithi Mts., Katharo 3. Crete, Rethimno nomos, Koufi 4. Crete, Rethimno nomos, Spili 5. Crete, Hani a nomos, Langos-Hilaro 6. Crete, Hania nomos, Prases 7. Crete, Hania nomos, Prines 8. Crete, Hania nomos, Kotsifiana, near Kakopetros 9. Igumenitsa 10. Katára pass 11. Olympos