Dr. Tóth Sándor (szerk.): A Bakonyi Természettudományi Múzeum Közleményei 7. (Zirc, 1988)
DR. SZEŐKE KÁLMÁN - SZEŐKE LÁSZLÓ - NYIRŐ MIKLÓS: Results of the investigations on the Lepidoptera fauna of the eastern Bakony MTS
Mamestra cappa HBN. A Mediterranean species which was considered to be - based on the collecting data in the end of fifties - as a new colonist /KOVÁCS 1958/. But the species, as the further collectings show - could not be able to stay permanently in Hungary, probably the cold and dry winter climate was untolerable to it. Its Hungarian occurrence mostly coincides with that of the Pandoriana pandora Den. et Schiff, which was also frequent in that time, fully extinct in the end of the sixties and it has data again only from the last three years. Between 15 and 18. VII.1963 four cappa specimens were collected by Nyirő in Inota. Sideridis implexa HBN. An interesting xerophilous species occurring in South and Central Europe, everywhere local and rare. Its main habitats in Hungary are hot and dry sandy dunes ant? fields} it was previously collected in Csömör, Csép, Peszér, Monor, Pőt-Csomád, Sukoró, Tihany /in coll. HNHM Budapest/. Its famous locality is the Somlyóhegy at Pót, two lepidopterists are gave mention about the occurrence of implexa on the Somlyóhegy /JABLONKAY 1974, S ZALKA Y 1962/. The new data from the Eastern Bakony Mts are the follows: Inota, 4.VII.I964 /1 specimen/, 29.V. 1973 /3 specimens/. Cucullia campanulae PRE. A western Palaearctic species distributed in South and Central Europe and in West Asia, larvae feed on Campanula species, mainly on C. rotundifolia. Its known localities are situated in the Hungarian Middle Mountains: Buda Mts, Pilis Mts. /KOVÁCS 1953, 1956/ Vértes Mts /SZEŐKE 1983/, Keszthely Mts /HERCZIG-BtiRGÉS-RONKAY 1981/, Jósvafő /GYULAI I. - GYULAI P. - VARGA 1979/ and in the NW edge of the country: Tanakajd /UHERKOVICH 1977-1978/ and Sopron. It was found in the material of the light trap at Balinka /20.VI. 1977/, and published also from Királyszállás in Eastern Bakony Mts. /FAZEKAS 1980/. The main part of the collecting data are given from June, but specimens are known also from July /for example in Tapolca Basin: Sáskaj moreover from August in Jósvafő. Luperina zollikoferi FRR. A Palaearctic steppe-species occurring in Central Europe probably as a relict| it was collected everywhere in low individual numbers in the eastern part. It was described from Hungary /FREYER 1834/ on the basis of the specimen collected by /KINDERMANN /1820/ at Buda, but, as further specimens had not found, KOVÁCS /1958/ deleted it from the checklist of the Hungarian fauna. Ten years later, in September 1968 two specimens were collected by Nyirő in Várpalota, and, lately - as a result of the investigations of Buschmann in the vicinity of Jászberény - further two specimens were found /4.IX. 1975 and 7.X. 1975./ Hydraecia petasilis DBL. An Euro-Siberian species with local distribution in Central and South Europe /BERGMANN 1954/. The larvae are endophagous, living in the roots of Petasites spp., the typical members of the brook-side plant communities. The first Hungarian locality was Pécs /Dahlström/ but this datum was deleted by KOVÁCS /1953-56/ and he mentioned as the only acceptable datum, from Bükk Mts., Garadna /leg. Issekutz/. In the Bükk Mts. some years later further localities were discovered /Oldal-völgy, Mészvölgy, Szilvásvárad, Bacsó-völgy f JABLONKAY 1974, RESKOVITS 1963/. The occurrence of the species in the Mecsek Mts. was supported by BALOGH /1978/ on the basis of the material of the light trap operates at Erdősmecske. Recently, mainly by the materials of the light trap system, some new localities were found /Szombathely, Pacsa, Keszthely/; from Transdanubia, Mikepércs com. HajduBihar from the Plain/. It was found also from the Bakony Mts. : Bakonybél /RÉZBÁNYÁI 1983/ and Pekete-vizpuszta /Herczig/ from the Northern Bakony Mts., Balinka, near to the Gaja brook, light trap /19.VIII. 1977/ and Bakonynána, upper part of Gaja valley /leg. L. Ábrahám/ from the Eastern Bakony.
