Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 6. (Budapest 1955)

Kovács, L.: The Macrolepidoptera characteristic to our sandy district

We found it in two places in the hills near Buda, on the dolomitic rocks of the Mts. Csiki, and in Pilisvörösvár, also on dolomite. In these latter two localities, its specimen numbers are, related to those of the sand dunes of the Plains, much lower. Ten per cent of all macrolepidoptera collected among the sand dunes of Soltvadkert, 31 May, 1951, had been 5. sericeata. 40. Sterrha sylvestraria Hbn. We have collected it in high numbers on the pebbly hills of the Natural Reservation of Uzsa, near Sümeg, in the Transdanubium. It had been found also in the vicinity of the Balaton ; and I caught one specimen in my flat in Buda, on a not sandy territory. We had collected it between the Danube and the Tisza, from Fót to Soltvadkert, and can be found in high numbers on the sand dunes. We have met with it in the eastern part of the country in Bátorliget only. 41. Rhodometra sacraria L. We know of 3 of its collecting localities in the Transdanubium (Magyaróvár, the Kisbalaton, Szentendre), then 3 in the Plains (Peszér, Kisnyir, Szikra). The latter are in a sandy area but there are sandy areas also near those of the Transdanubium. In the absence of data to the contrary, it seemed reasonable that we mention also sacraria among our species characteristic to the sand; the more so as the most of our specimens originate from the sandy area between the Danube and the Tisza. 42. Chondrosoma fiduciaria Anker. We know of 3 of its collecting localities in Hungary only. One of them is the Tétény plateau, south of Buda ; the other is the isle Csepel, where it flew on the sandy clearings of the Király forest, since cut down and built in ; and the third is Peszér, where it lived on the sandy meadows. In the two latter places it had not been rare in the past. 43. Boarmia umbraria Hbn. It had been collected up to now solely between the Danube and the Tisza, where the sandy southern slopes of the Mts. Cserhát make their transition into the Plains ; and there around sandy oak forests. Its localities are Fót, Gödöllő, Isaszeg, Pécel, Maglód, Nagykáta. 44. Zygaena laeta Hbn. It flies in high numbers in some years both between the Danube and the Tisza, and in the Transdanubium (in two places: Komárom, Fonyód). Those of the Plains are : the Pest side of Budapest, the Isle Csepel, Peszér, Dabas, Kunszentmiklós, Rém, Pótharaszt, Kisnyir. In the Mts. Buda, we have met with it up to Szentendre, but exceptionally only. 45. Zygaena Cynarae var. pusztáé Bgff. An individually rich population of this variety had been found in the Reservation of Uzsa, in the Transdanubium. Another Transdanubian locality is Pécs. Around Buda, it can be found in some places in the hills ; and near Vác, on the left side of the Danube. It had been collected on the sandy territory between the Danube and the Tisza, from Gödöllő to Bugac. According to contemporary data, there had been populations of high individual numbers here, but even today, it breeds the best and ranges the farthest on the sand of the Plains. We have but a single specimen from the eastern part of the Plains (Bátorliget). 46. Acanthopsyche zelleri Mn. Its collecting localities are Budaörs (the southern edges of Mts. Csiki), Buda (Farkasvölgy) ; then on the sandy Pest side : Káposztásmegyer, Rákospalota, Csepel. It occurred also in the old graveyard of the Váci-út (now built in) in Pest, in a Festucetum sulcatae association. 47. Amicta ecksteini Led. According to I. Frivaldszky, Lederer described this species by specimens collected on the Sashegy, in Buda. However, it cannot be found there any more. Not very far away from this hill, I saw its sacks, even after the war, on the southern slopes of the Széchenyi-hegy. 22 Term. Tud. Múzeum Evkönyve