Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 56. (Budapest 1964)

Gozmány, L.: Ergebnisse der zoologischen Forschungen von Dr. Z. Kaszab in der Mongolei 8. A new symmocid genus and species from Mongolia (Lepidoptera)

Holotype female: „Mongólia, Eastgobi aimak, Cagan Elis, 30 km S of Zuun Bajan, 22. June, 1963, leg. Dr. Z. KASZAB, gen.prep. 1780, dr. GOZMÁNY". Paratype female, of same data. The types are deposited in the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. The habitat is a sand desert (Cagan Elis = white sand), with some sporadic "saxaul" vegetation (Haloxylon spp.) and Caragana. The specimens were captured during night-lamping, in very hot weather preceding a heavy sandstorm. The new species is dedicated to Dr. Z. KASZAB, specialist of Tenebrionidae and Meloidae yet never failing to capture also micro-moths on his field trips. # * * As this paper goes to press, I find that I have to insert a note on the systematical position of the taxa in question. In recent correspondance with Dr. AMSEL,. Karlsruhe, we have wellnigh reached the conclusion that the genera Gigantoletria GOZM., Gobiletria gen.n., and the whole generic group around Holcopogon STGR., ought to be separated as a distinct family. Dr. AMSEL had namely found males of Gigantoletria amseli GOZM., whose genital structure, though not too dissimilar, still precludes the relegation of these forms to the family Symmocidae. At present, however, nothing more definite can be said, and the solving of the problem, requiring further material and investigation, will probably be presented in a future study. References: GOZMÁNY, L. A.: The Family Symmocidae and the Description of New Taxa mainly from the Near East (Lepidoptera) (Acta Zool. Acad. Sei. Hung.. 9, 1963, p. 67—134).