Inhalt Band 8
Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 8: 1-944, 36 Taf.
Schwanfeld, 31. Juli 2001 ISBN 3-9802644-7-5
Fauna of the Nolidae and Noctuidae of the Levante with descriptions and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) Appendix: Revision of the genus Clytie Hübner, 1823
with 130 figures and 22 colour plates (Hermann H. Hacker) 7
Beitrag zur Noctuidenfauna Palästinas: Die Eulen der Klapperich-Ausbeute aus Jordanien (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) (Hermann H. Hacker & Hans-Peter Schreier) 399
List of Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) collected by G. Müller and collegues from 1987 to 1999 in Israel and neighbouring countries (Hermann H. Hacker & Hans-Peter Schreier) 423
List of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) collected in Israel (Vasiliy Kravchenko, Hermann H. Hacker & Eviatar Nevo) 459
Beitrag zur Noctuiden-Fauna Israels und Palästinas. Verzeichnis des von de Freina Ende November bis März 1994 und 1995 beobachteten Artenspektrums (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) (Hermann H. Hacker und Josef J. de Freina) 475
Ergebnisse einer 10-jährigen Erforschung der Noctuidae-Fauna eines Ölfeldes in der Libyschen Wüste (Lepidoptera) (Hermann H. Hacker, Kurt Huber & Gottfried Stummer) 485
Faunistic and taxonomic notes on Noctuidae from Jordan (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (F. Fabiano & A. Zilli) 491
Beitrag zur Lepidopterenfauna Syrien (Hans Löbel, Dirk Stadie und Thomas Drechsel) 507
List of Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) collected in Arava (Israel) with faunistical and ecological comments (Hermann H. Hacker, Vasiliy Kravchenko & Ilan Yarom) 515
ESPERIANA Verlagsprogramm 534
Insect-Fauna of Yemen Part 2 541
Contribution to the Fauna of Click-Beetles from Yemen (Coleoptera: Elateridae) Part 1: Description of Species New to Science with Remarks on Genera Madadicus Stibick, Buffeventius Fleutiaux, and Optitarynus Stibick (Claus Wurst, Rainer Schimmel & Giuseppe Platia) 541
Additions to the Ant Fauna of Yemen (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) (Cedric A. Collingwood and Antonius van Harten) 559
Larva of Auchenisa cerurodes Hampson, 1916 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acronictinae) (Matti Ahola) 569
Sesiidae aus dem Jemen (Michael Petersen) 574
The Araeopteron genus-group in Yemen, with description on one new genus and 6 new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) (Michael Fibiger and Hermann Hacker) 575
Description of new Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) species from the Arabian Peninsula and with other taxonomic notes (Hermann H. Hacker & Michael Fibiger) 585
Lepidoptera of Yemen Arab Republic, collected during three expeditions in 1996, 1998 and 2000 (Hermann H. Hacker , Francois Aulombard, Andreas Bischof, Julian Bittermann, Michael Fibiger and Hans-Peter Schreier) 597
A new African Attatha (Moore) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) (A. Zilli) 633
Contribution to the Lepidoptera-Fauna of Ghana – Part II: The Butterfly collection of the Department of Zoology in Legon, University of Ghana (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) (Lars Kühne) 637
Contribution to the Lepidoptera-Fauna of Ghana - Part III: The Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) of the expeditions 1992-1997 (Lars Kühne) 649
The female (allotype) of the Cretan Cryphia omalosi Svendsen & Fibiger, 1998 (Noctuidae, Bryophilinae) (Michael Fibiger and Poul Svendsen) 654
The Noctuidae material collected by Péter Gyulai & Adrienne Garai in the Qinghai region, China, in 1999 (Lepidoptera) (Péter Gyulai and László Ronkay) 655
A new Xestia (Hübner, 1818) species from Sibiria (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) (Peter Gyulai) 701
Zwei neue Glasflüglerarten aus Nepal (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) (Michael Petersen) 704
Description of two new species of the genus Trichanarta Hampson, 1896 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Hadeninae) (Péter Gyulai & Márton Hreblay) 709
Eine Lepidopterenausbeute von der Insel Madeira (Portugal) im neuen Jahrtausend Teil I. (Lep.: Psychidae, Sphingidae, Rhopalocera, Geometridae, Noctuidae, Arctiidae) (Michael Weidlich) 715
Zur Schmetterlingsfauna des Banater Karstgebietes in Südwestrumänien (Lepidoptera) (F. König und M. Weidlich) 732
Orthopteroid insects of the Adrienne Garai and Péter Gyulai expedition to Mongolia in 1999 (Adrienne Garai) 747
Orthopteroid Insects from Ganesh Himal, Nepal (Sigfrid Ingrisch and Adrienne Garai) 755
New species of the genera: Euxoa, Dichagyris and Chersotis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Noctuinae) from Central Asia (Zoltán Varga1 and Péter Gyulai) 771
Beitrag zur Fauna der Noctuidae des Iran: Ergebnisse von Forschungen der Jahre 1998 bis 2000 (Lepidoptera) (Hermann H. Hacker & Jörg-Uwe Meineke) 791
Noctuidae from the European part of Kazakhstan with first records of seven species for the European Fauna (Lepidoptera) (plate 35) (Hermann H. Hacker and Jan Miatleuski) 811
Zwei neue Noctuidae-Arten aus Vorder- und Zentralasien (Tafel 29) (Hermann H. Hacker) 825
Korrigenda Band 7 827
Tafeln/Plates 829-901
Index 901-942
Zusammenfassungen (Auswahl)
The Araeopteron genus-group in Yemen, with description on one new genus and 6 new species
(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
Michael Fibiger and Hermann Hacker
Abstract: Two genera, - one new, and 7 species, - 6 new, are recognised in the Araeopteron genus-group from material collected in Yemen during three expeditions in 1996, 1998, and 2000. The taxa are: Genus Araeopteron Hampson, 1893: Species: Araeopteron yemeni Fibiger & Hacker, sp. n.; Araeopteron ecphaea (Hampson, 1914); Araeopteron adeni Fibiger & Hacker, sp. n.; Araeopteron schreieri Fibiger & Hacker, sp. n.; Araeopteron aulombardi Fibiger & Hacker, sp. n.; Araeopteron alboniger Fibiger & Hacker, sp. n.; Genus Araeopterella Fibiger & Hacker, gen. n.: Species: Araeopterella sterrhaoides Fibiger & Hacker, sp. n.
The Noctuidae material collected by Péter Gyulai & Adrienne Garai in the Qinghai region, China, in 1999
(Lepidoptera)
Péter Gyulai and László Ronkay
Abstract: Present paper contains the complete list of some one hundred Noctuidae species collected during the expedition to the Kuku-Noor region in August 1999, including the descriptions of a new genus, Dracoxestia gen. n., fifteen new species, Isochlora eti sp. n., I. pseudossicolor sp. n., I. ochrea sp. n., I. microviridis sp. n., Euxoa chlorophaia sp. n., Agrotis soror sp. n., Dichagyris vargazoli sp. n., D. kormos sp. n., Rhyacia admiranda sp. n., Palaeamathes csomasandori sp. n., Xestia (s.l.) sagittifera sp. n., Dracoxestia adrienneae sp. n., Apamea platoscota sp. n., Atrachea caelestina sp. n. and Cryphia omega sp. n., and a new subspecies, Xestia leptophysa microrenalis ssp. n. are given. In addition, the descriptions of further eight new species, (Isochlora (Grumia) cardinalis sp. n., I. (Chamyla) zoeldice sp. n., I. (Ch.) paulusi sp. n., Euxoa uigurica sp. n., Euxoa qaidamensis sp. n., Euxoa erythrochrysa sp. n., Sympistis nykli sp. n. and Eremohadena ochronota sp. n.), collected by Stanislav Nykl, Milan Kopp, Vladimir Paulus and Ulrich Salk in this region, and some taxonomic comments concerning with certain species of the Tibetan fauna are also involved to this article.
Additions to the Ant Fauna of Yemen
(Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Cedric A. Collingwood and Antonius van Harten
Abstract. An account is given of ant species recently collected in Yemen during 1998-2000, using several different trapping methods. Seven genera and 19 species are added to the Yemeni ant fauna. The genera Aenictus, Odontomachus, Oligomyrmex and Axinidris are recorded for the first time from the Arabian Peninsula. New species for the Arabian fauna include Odontomachus troglodytes Santschi, Leptothorax megalops Hamman & Klemm, Monomorium cryptobium (Santschi), Oligomyrmex arabicus sp.n., Camponotus mayri Forel, Camponotus spissinodis Forel and Paratrechina vividula Nylander.
A new Xestia (Hübner, 1818) species from Sibiria
(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
Peter Gyulai
Abstract: The description of Xestia (Pachnobia) augustasi sp. n. from the Kodar Mts.,Stanovoy highland, Sibiria is given.
New species of the genera: Euxoa, Dichagyris and Chersotis
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Noctuinae) from Central Asia
Zoltán Varga and Péter Gyulai
Abstract: Description of Euxoa psammospora sp. n., E. dysgrapha sp. n, E. anthracina sp. n., Dichagyris apochora sp. n., Dichagyris nekrasovi sp. n., Dichagyris macrolycos sp. n., Chersotis argyllographa sp. n. and Ch. lukhtanovi sp. n. With figures and photoplates.
Noctuidae from the European part of Kazakhstan with first records of seven species for the European Fauna
(Lepidoptera)
Hermann H. Hacker and Jan Miatleuski
Abstract The present collectings in the European part of Kazakhstan in the semidesert zone of the southeasternmost part of Europe include 177 species, among them seven species mentioned for the first time for the European fauna: Catocala orientalis Staudinger, 1877, Clytie gracilis (Bang-Haas, 1907), Cryphia distincta (Christoph, 1887), Pseudohadena armata (Alphéraky, 1887), Hadula halolimna (Gyulay & Varga, 1998), Cardepia additamenda Hacker, 1998 and Eugnorisma eminens (Lederer, 1855). The collections were made in the years 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Eine Lepidopterenausbeute von der Insel Madeira (Portugal) im neuen Jahrtausend Teil I.
(Lep.: Psychidae, Sphingidae, Rhopalocera, Geometridae, Noctuidae, Arctiidae)
Michael Weidlich
Summary: In the present article the results of a collecting trip to Madeira in January and February 2000 are given. Altogether are recorded 60 species. The material contains one species new to science, Blepharita inexspectata n. sp. and furthermore 3 species newly recorded for this island. In addition the Psychidae, Sphingidae, Geometridae and Arctiidae are reviewed for the first time. Furthermore as a result a checklist of the Madeirian species of the treated families is given containing 94 species.
Orthopteroid insects of the Adrienne Garai and Péter Gyulai expedition to Mongolia in 1997
Adrienne Garai
Abstract: A list of the orthopteroid insects collected during the expedition of A. Garai and P. Gyulai to Mongolia in August to September 1997 is given. The list contains 49 species of Orthoptera (15 Ensifera, 34 Caelifera), 3 Mantodea and 1 Dermaptera.
Orthopteroid Insects from Ganesh Himal, Nepal
Sigfrid Ingrisch and Adrienne Garai
Abstract: A list of 86 species of orthopteroid insects is presented (32 Ensifera, 40 Caelifera, 9 Mantodea, 5 Dermaptera), collected during the expedition of A. Garai and P. Gyulai to Ganesh Himal in western central Nepal in September 1995. Three species are described as new: Letana ganesha n. sp. (Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae), Coptotettix diyalensis n. sp. (Tetrigidae), and Chorthippus sanlanggothis n. sp. (Acrididae, Gomphocerinae).
Zwei neue Noctuidae-Arten aus Vorder- und Zentralasien
(Tafel 29)
Hermann H. Hacker
Abstract: The present paper deals with the description of two Noctuidae species from Asia new to science, which were collected some years ago and discussed since for some time: Apamea goateri Hacker sp. n. and Hydraecia praecipua sp. n. Hacker & Nekrasov.
Larva of Auchenisa cerurodes Hampson, 1916
(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acronictinae)
Matti Ahola
Abstract: Description of larva of Auchenisa cerurodes Hampson, 1916 according to ex ovo rearing from Yemen during expedition February-March 2000 of M. Fibiger, H. Hacker, H.-P. Schreier & F. Aulombard. Drawings of chaetotaxy and mouth parts of larva are given.
Description of new Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) species from the Arabian Peninsula and with other taxonomic notes
Hermann H. Hacker & Michael Fibiger
Summary. Five new species: Interdelta jansei Hacker & Fibiger sp. n., Acrapex prospera Hacker & Fibiger n. sp., Feliniopsis sabaea Hacker & Fibiger sp. n., F. viettei Hacker & Fibiger sp. n. and F. apameoides Hacker & Fibiger sp. n. have been described and some taxonomic problems of Yemen and Arabian Noctuidae discussed. The paper includes an overview over the arrangement of the genus Feliniopsis Roepke, 1938 (=Eutamsia Fletcher, 1961) and especially its Ethiopian members.
Zwei neue Glasflüglerarten aus Nepal (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae)
Michael Petersen
Aus dem Kathmandu-Tal Nepals werden Paranthrene aureoviridis sp. n. und Entrichella hreblayi sp. n. beschrieben. P. aureoviridis sp. n. ist nahe verwandt mit Trilochana chrysochloris Hampson 1897, von der sie sich durch die Färbung der Vorderflügel, die Beschuppung der ETA, die Ausprägung der “Wespentaillie”, die Färbung von Patagia und Abdomen, sowie durch die geringere Größe unterscheidet.
Description of two new species of the genus Trichanarta Hampson, 1896
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Hadeninae)
Péter Gyulai & Márton Hreblay †
Abstract: Two new Trichanarta species: himalayica sp. n. and albilabiata sp. n. are described; the lectotype of T. mausi Püngeler is designated. With 12 figures and 6 colour pictures.
Contribution to the Fauna of Click-Beetles from Yemen
(Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Part 1: Description of Species New to Science with Remarks on Genera Madadicus Stibick, Buffeventius Fleutiaux, and Optitarynus Stibick
Claus Wurst, Rainer Schimmel & Giuseppe Platia
Abstract: The present paper deals with the fauna of Elateridae (Coleoptera) from Yemen. 14 species out of 11 genera are described as new: Agrypnus oinodon n. sp., Meristhus sabensis n. sp., Saudilacon balcis n. sp., Aeoloides agriotides n. sp., Propsephus claudei n. sp., Propsephus occupator n. sp., Cardiophorus aussanicus n. sp., Cardiophorus (Perrinellus) arabs n. sp., Cardiophorus (Perrinellus) commiphorae n. sp., Craspedostethus myrrhilegius n. sp., Melanoxanthus almaca n. sp., Anchastus vanharteni n. sp., Madadicus sulcator n. sp., and Buffeventius somnambulus n. sp. The genus Buffeventius Fleutiaux hitherto placed in the Denticollinae sensu Schenkling undergoes a replacement to the Negastriinae. The distribution of the genus Madadicus Stibick is discussed. The probable placement of most of the afrotropical species of ”Zorochros” in Madadicus is considered.
A new African Attatha (Moore)
(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
A. Zilli
Abstract: Attatha honeyi sp. nov. is described from Cameroon; the new species is easily distinguishable from congeners by its unique pattern, particularly the absence of dark stripe along inner margin of forewing and dark patches of forewing with smooth margins. A synopsys of the genus Attatha Moore, 1878 is also presented and the following synonymies established: Fodina attathoides Karsch, 1896 (= Attatha ethiopica Hampson, 1910, syn. nov.; = Secusio gaetana Oberthür, 1923, syn. nov.).
