This study focuses on morphological and genetic differences between two central European subspecies of the noctuid moth Noctua interjecta Hübner: N. interjecta interjecta Hübner, 1803 from Transcarpathia in Ukraine and N. interjecta caliginosa (Schawerda, 1919) from Poland. While the morphological differences between these taxa are fairly obvious, individuals from these two populations were found to differ also genetically, as indicated by the cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene sequences. The Transcarpathian population exhibits solely the NImizH3 haplotype, but the Polish one the relatively distant NImizH1 and NImizH2 haplotypes. A Neighbour-Joining tree and a network of haplotypes separated the two haplotypes found in Poland (N. i. caliginosa) from those derived from NImizH3 (N. i. interjecta). The divergence time for these two groups was estimated as 400–600 thousand years before present, coinciding with the maximum extent of the Pleistocene ice-sheet covering Europe.

Episema glaucina (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) has been recorded for the first time in Poland following the faunistic revision of material collected by A.S. Kostrowicki in the Nida Valley in the early 1950s, and on the basis of specimens trapped during fieldwork in the same region of the Małopolska Upland in southern Poland.

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Faunistic analysis of records of noctuid moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae, Noctuidae) from the Karkonosze National Park (Karkonosze Mts., southern Poland) obtained at the turn of the 19th century, in the late 20th century and the last two years has revealed changes in this assemblage: 18 species were never recorded before in this national park, and 9 of them were new to the Polish Karkonosze Mts. as a whole. A further 11 species were found that had been recorded at the turn of the 19th century but not confirmed in the late 20th century.

ABSTRACT. This is the first record of Protarchanara brevilinea (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from Poland. It was found in Western Pomerania, NW Poland.