Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

144 Phylum Arthropoda mens of Agonopterix selini, another species new to the Hungarian fauna, were taken by IMRE BALOGH at Szakonyfalu and in the Forestry Research Institute light trap at Sopronhorpács. Also caught in the latter was the first specimen in Hungary of the upland species Rhigognostis incarnatella (SZABÓKY 1984). The first Hungarian specimen of Calliteara abietis was discovered after a long interval in the collection of LÁSZLÓ BALÁSHÁZY (Szakonyfalu on June 20, 1976—SZABÓKY 1993). A female example of Nemaphora violella (now known correctly as Adela violella) was collected from spruce at Orfalu in on June 17, 1993. It was also new to the Hungarian fauna (SZABÓKY 1994a). Moth specimens collected at the 'begonia station' of the Kertész horticultural cooperative in Szombathely were found to be Duponchelia fovealis, for which there was no previous occurrence record in Hungary. This raises again the common problem of whether the species was introduced, had spread to the location, or was latent there. In the same article, the author detailed the distribution of native Anchinia species in Hungary, with collection records of A. laureolella, A. eristalis and A. daphnella in the Őrség and Vendvidék (SZABÓKY 1994b). Cameraria ohridella, which lives on horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), was recorded as new to science in 1986. It has spread very rapidly in Transdanubia, causing appreciable damage to its host plant in many places (SZABÓKY 1994c; SZABÓKY and VAS 1997). CSABA SZABÓKY produced a study (SZABÓKY 1995) summarizing the specimens collected as part of the National History of the Őrség programme and later in the same district, along with the literary references. The processing produced altogether 145 7 Lepidoptera species. The first Hungarian specimen of the leaf-roller Celypha woodiana was collected near Sárvár (Sárvár: Bajti, on June 3, 1992) by SZABÓKY, as were others at the Szakonyfalu Game Lodge (August 21, 1992 and August 21, 1993) and at Kétvölgy among bilberries (September 8, 1994 and August 18, 1995). Also collected at Kétvölgy was the first Hungarian specimen of Teleiodes saltuum (August 5, 1995). The author reports in the same article (SZABÓKY 1996) the discovery of the first Hungarian specimens of the leaf-rollers Epiblema grandaevana, collected by ANDRÁS AMBRUS near Sopron (Hermes, June 16, 1979), and Eriocrania semipurpurella, found in the Őrség Landscape Conversation Area. A later publication (SZABÓKY 1997) summarized Lepidoptera developments in the Őrség after 1995, when a further nine new species appeared, mainly from the author's collecting activity, while the species, belonging to the Gelechiidae family, became known after identification by TOKÁR ZDENKO of Slovakia. Including these, there were 1466 Lepidoptera species known in the Őrség at that time. Prominent among them is Phyllonorycter robiniella, probably present wherever the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) grows (SZABÓKY and CSÓKA 1997). Basking specimens of Mompha subbistrigella were found on the western gable of the Felsőszer research building in Szalafő in the late afternoon. The species was new to the Hungarian fauna. Another dart new to the Hungarian fauna, Ochropleura leucogaster, became known recently from material collected