Historical records: Polygonia egea (Cramer, 1775), an extinct member, now a scarce visitor of the Carpathian Basin fauna (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
December 27, 2018
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| Article Title: | Historical records: Polygonia egea (Cramer, 1775), an extinct member, now a scarce visitor of the Carpathian Basin fauna (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) |
| Authors: | Balint Z, Katona G. |
| Affiliation: | Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum |
| Abstract: | The Carpathian Basin literature records and voucher specimens of the Mediterranean migratory anglewing species Polygonia egea (Cramer, [1775]) are reviewed. Eight specimens deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum collection are catalogued: from Budapest, Hungary (n=2), from the Cazan Gorge, Romania (n=4), from Jósvafő, Hungary (n=1) and from Orsova, Romania (n=1). The literature porvided altogether 11 locality records from the Banat region (n=6), from the Carpathian region (n=1), and from the Pannonian region (n=4). The species was most probably native in the region Banat until the turn of the 19-20th centuries. It is concluded that the species is a sporadic visitor of the Carpathian Basin, and at present it is not indigenous, because of climate change. |
| Keywords: | Carpathians, Banat, climate change, collection, literature, Pannonia, voucher specimen. |
| *Correspondence: | Bálint, Zs., Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13., H – 1088, Budapest, Hungary; email: balint.zsolt@nhmus.hu |
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