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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae

1953

Volume 28

Abstract: The first part of the paper gives three samples of the association Solenobietum triquetrellae - Bacotia sepium Troníček (1951) with the abundance according to the scale: + .sporadic, 1 not :abundant, 2 rather abundant, 3 abundant, 4 very abundant. It is a larval association of Psychidae observed in the spring months during three years on a forest road near Prague (200 m.above sea level), on about 50 granite kerbstones covered with algae and lichens (Chlorophycaeto-Lichenetum). The species of the association are divided into two groups: (1) association species either entirely dependent on the nutritive substratum of the locality: B. sepium Spr., T. pseudobombycella Hb., S. manni Z., S. triquetrlella F. R., S. pineti Z., S. nickerli Hein., or only partly dependent on it: F. casta Pall., P. betulina Z.- (2) additional species using the locality for a transitional stay especially in the cocoon stage and whose nutritive plants occur outside the locality proper: A. crenulellahelix Sieb., M. crasiorella Brd., quite subordinately there is here a group of quite accidental species: Eupista (Coleophora) sp. The second part of the paper deals with the ecology of Bacotia sepium Spr. The results are given of the observation of the larval bags with regard to exposition and shade; the greatest number of bags was found in shady expositions, and this is connected with the position of the nutritive substratum and corresponds also to the distribution of the species in forest regions. As nutritive plants were recognised various green algae (Chlorophyceae) and leprous stages of lichens, e. g. Physcia. In the conclusion the author records the results of the observations in the cultivation of this species cultivated on green algae from trunks of alder and acacia. Before the hatching of the male the pupa shifts half from the bag, the pupa of the female does not do so and the female leaves the cocoon, but remains sitting in the bag. Parasitic eclosis was very rare.

Abstract: Es werden 40 Microlepidopteren-Arten aufgeführt, von denen für die türkische Fauna neu sind: Eromene rayatella Ams., Myelois osseella Rag., Cataonia mauritanica Ams., Pterophorus aegyptiacus Rbl., Platyedra gossypiella Sndr. und Ethmia anatolica sp. n. Letztere wird neu beschrieben und dabei gleichzeitig die unsichere Stellung von bipunctella F. bei dem Genus Ethmia diskutiert. Die westpalaarktischen Lecithocera- und Sarisophora-Arten werden revidiert. Briantiella Tur. und nigrana Dup. kommen zu Lecithocera Hs.; luticornella Z. wird als blosse Form der nigrana bestätigt. Zu Sarisophora gehören: siculella Wck., pallicorneUa Stgr., occidentella Ams., die neu beschrieben wird, ptochomorpha Meyr. Als Unterart der pallicornella werden flavissimella Mn. und intermedia Stgr. erkannt. Für luticostella Trti. wird ein neues Genus Xanthoceta errichtet. Unklar bleiben Lecithocera canigella Chr. und paupella Rbl. Weder zu Lecithocera noch zu Sarisophora gehört loxophthalma Meyr. Die von Meyrick behauptete nahe Verwandtschaft zwischen Lecithocera und Brachmia wird widerlegt. Pterolonche albescens Z. wird als bona species gegenüber inspersa Stgr. ausgewiesen.

Villiers A.Les Héteropteres malgaches du Muséum national de Praha. VII. Reduviidae (2eme note)Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 28: 431-433Vondráček K.Výsledky zoologické expedice Národního musea v Praze do Turecka. Results of Zoological Scientific Expedition of the National Museum in Praha to Turkey. 14. Hemiptera III. Homoptera-PsyllineaActa Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 28: 435-450