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Current Volume - (133) 2021:
133(1):
FOURTH
UPDATE TO A CHECKLIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLES, 2013
1 DAVID J. L. AGASSIZ, 2 S. D. BEAVAN & 1 R. J. HECKFORD
1 Department of Life Sciences, Division of Insects, Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
2 The Hayes, Zeal Monachorum, Devon EX17 6DF
Abstract
This update incorporates information published since 30 November 2019
and before 1
January 2021 into A Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles,
2013.
HYDRAECIA
OSSEOLA (STAUDINGER, 1882) (NOCTUIDAE) AND ARAEOPTERON ECPHAEA
HAMPSON, 1940 (EREBIDAE) NEW FOR THE FAUNA OF CROATIA
TONI KOREN
Association Hyla, I. Lipovac 7, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: koren.toni1@gmail.com
Abstract
During a moth survey of Neretva river Delta, southern Croatia, two interesting
Noctuoidea
species were recorded for the first time in the country. Hydraecia osseola
was recorded close
to Metkovic, some 450 km from the nearest known populations in northern
Italy.
Araeopteron ecphaea was recorded near Neretva river mouth, about 500
km NW from the
closest localities in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria. Both species have
a disjunct distribution
in Europe and these records represent a drastic increase in their range.
These records support
the value of the Neretva river Delta as an important part of Ecological
Network Natura 2000
as well as one of designated Ramsar sites, as a refugium for wetland
moth species in the
Adriatic coastline.
Key words: Neretva river delta, Noctuidae, Erebidae, moths, distribution,
wetland species.
PARACOSSULUS
THRIPS (HÜBNER, 1818) (LEP. COSSIDAE)
RE-DISCOVERED IN BULGARIA WITH NOTES OF SOME OTHER
SURPRISING FINDINGS IN THE DRAGOMAN NATURA 2000
PROTECTED AREA
STOYAN BESHKOV& ANA NAHIRNIc-BESHkOVA
National Museum of Natural History, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.1, 1000 Sofia,
Bulgaria
stoyan.beshkov@gmail.com; ananahirnic@nmnhs.com
Abstract
Paracossulus (=Catopta) thrips, a species listed in Annex II of the Council
Directive
92/43/EEC (Code: 4028), considered as extinct in Bulgaria, is re-discovered
after more than
25 years in an isolated locality remote from previous sites. Some other
rare and interesting
species found in the same locality are commented on and illustrated;
for some, this locality
is at the edge of their range.
Keywords: Lepidoptera, Paracossulus thrips, Habitat Directive, protected
species, faunistics.
THE MACRO-MOTHS
OF ASTON ROWANT NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE, OXFORDSHIRE
PAUL WARING
Shire, Tydd Bank, Sutton Bridge, Spalding, Lincs., PE12 9XE
paul_waring@btinternet.com
Abstract
This article reviews the recording of macro-moths at Aston Rowant National
Nature Reserve,
Oxfordshire, since 1890. The all-time total list of the 348 species macro-moths
known from
the site is presented. Species for which the reserve is particularly
important and those for
which there are no recent records are separately indicated.
Keywords: moth recording, historical species list, Aston Rowant National
Nature Reserve,
oxfordshire, England.
LIMNEPHILUS PATI O’CONNOR
(TRICH.: LIMNEPHILIDAE), A CADDISFLY NEW TO SCOTLAND
1 ROBIN D. SUTTON, 2 IAN D. WALLACE & 3 JAMES P. o’CONNOR
17 Bualadubh, Eochar, Isle of South Uist HS8 5RQ, United Kingdom.
(E-mail: robin.d.sutton@googlemail.com)
2National Museums Liverpool World Museum, William Brown Street L3 8EN3,
United Kingdom.
(e-mail: Ian.Wallace@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk)
3Emeritus Entomologist, National Museum of Ireland – Natural History,
Merrion Street, Dublin
2, D02 F627, Ireland. (e-mail: joconnor@museum.ie)
Abstract
In 2020, a male Limnephilus pati o’Connor, 1980 was taken in a
light-trap on South Uist in
the outer Hebrides. The species is new to Scotland and it was previously
presumed extinct
in Great Britain. The island has the largest machair system in the British
Isles and the caddisfly
may be associated with the resultant calcareous conditions there.
Key words: caddisfly, Trichoptera, Limnephilus pati, first record, South
Uist, outer Hebrides,
Scotland, machair
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