Uherkovich Ákos: A Villányi-hegység botanikai és zoológiai alapfelmérése (Dunántúli Dolgozatok Természettudományi Sorozat 10., 2000)

Nógrádi, Sára: Caddisflies (Trichoptera) from the Villány Hills, South Hungary Collection in an area without water courses. - Tegzesek (Trichoptera) a Villányi-hegységből. Gyűjtések egy vízfolyások nélküi területen.

Dunántúli Dolg. Term. Tud. Sorozat 10 285-295 Pécs, 2000 Caddisflies (Trichoptera) from the Villány Hills, South Hungary. Collection in an area without water courses. Sára NÓGRÁDI NÓGRÁDI, S.: Caddisflies (Trichoptera) from the Villány Hills, South Hungary. Collection in an area without water courses. Abstract. 50 caddisfly species were collected in 23 sites of the hills where no water courses occur but where there are small brooks and fish ponds in the surroundings, further the Dráva river runs about 10 km away. Amost all of these species are widely distributed and common ones occuring almost all over the country or the hilly region of Transdanubia. Also, a rarity was collected: Adicella syriaca Ulmer has only a few distribution data in South Hungary, here it was the fouth time it was found. An analysis is given on the caddisflies of other areas far from water courses, e. g. the southern slopes of Mecsek Mts., South Hungary. Introduction In the years 1999 and 2000 a scientific programme was organized by the Janus Pannonius Museum (Pécs) to gather together a substantial amount of floristic and faunal information of the Villány Hills. The easternmost parts of these hills (Szársomlyó and Fekete-hegy) are legally protected areas, and earlier some isolated attempts were made to gain knowledge about certain animal taxa here. Many papers demonstrated certain results, e. g. three papers were published about the butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of the hills (UHERKOVICH 1975, 1976, 1979), another papers presented data about ground beetles, etc. Although the hills are known well enough from the aspects of both botany and climatology, these facts are almost indifferent for the caddisflies occurring here. In the seventies and eighties two unimportant light trap materials were purchased from the County Plant Protection Station (Pécs), from which a small caddisfly material was selected and determined. Á. Uherkovich also erected a trap in Nagyharsány, to examine the lepidopterous fauna of the Szársomlyó Hill (UHERKOVICH 1976). As these traps were set far from waters - Göntér nearby Siklós and in Nagyharsány village -, they supplied small quantities of caddisfly materials. Other collections provided hardly any further material: in the 70s and 80s only a few occasional collecting trips were led onto the hills. Methods and material In the years 1999 and 2000 Ákos Uherkovich and Levente Ábrahám collected by lamp at different sites of the hills (Fig. 1-2), to study mostly the lepidopterous and neuropterous fauna. In many cases the author of the present paper joined these colleagues so as to collect caddisflies as well.