A revised checklist of pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) in Croatia

Abstract

The first checklist of pyraloid moth species in Croatia, published in 2019, includes 362 species. A provisional checklist and bibliography of the Pyraloidea of the Balkan Peninsula was published in 2018, but because of unfortunate overlaps in timing, that work was not considered in the later publication. This present article provides new data on 16 additional species included in the earlier work. Taking these into account the number of Pyraloidea species occurring in Croatia raises to 377 and includes 207 Crambidae species plus 170 Pyralidae taxa. This represents about 45% of the European pyraloid moth fauna.A revised checklist is presented now. Another 31 species, not included in the 2018 provisional checklist for the Balkan Peninsula, but which are listed in the 2019 Croatian checklist of Pyraloidea are also discussed. This is followed by a comparison with the pyraloid fauna of other countries from the region. Prvi popis vrsta Pyraloidea Hrvatske objavljen 2019. godine broji 362 vrste. Privremeni popis i bibliografija Pyraloidea Balkanskog poluotoka objavljeni su 2018. godine, no zbog nezgodnog vremenskog preklapanja nije uzeta u obzir pri izradi prvog popisa. Ovaj rad donosi nove podatke o 16 dodatnih vrsta iz spomenute publikacije. Uzevši istu u obzir, broj vrsta Pyraloidea u fauni Hrvatske raste na 377 vrsta. Ažurirani popis sada ukupno broji 207 vrsta por. Crambidae i 170 vrsta por. Pyralidae, što predstavlja oko 45% ukupne europske faune Pyraloidea.Predstavljen je revidirani popis. Dodatna 31 vrsta koja nije navedena u privremenom popisu Balkanskog poluotoka, a koje su uvrštene u prvi hrvatski popis Pyraloidea, također su raspravljane. Usto, izvršena je usporedba sa susjednim državama regije.

Further additions to the grass moth (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) fauna of Croatia

“…In total, 310 species of Crambidae have been recorded in the Balkan peninsula (PLant & Jakšić, 2018). As a result of the present survey, and taking into account two more species published in another article in this issue (GumhaLter, 2021), the Crambidae family in Croatia now comprises 218 species (GumhaLter, 2019b;koren, 2020;koren & kuLijer, 2020). Still, this number is probably far from final as most of the area of the country still needs to be explored.…”

“…Notes: This species is distributed in Spain, Italy, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Crimea, Greece, Crete, Russia, Asia Minor, Jordan, Iran, Iraq down to Afghanistan (SLamka, 2008). The species has not been recorded in Croatia so far (Plant & Jakšić, 2008, GumhaLter, 2019b but it was expected as it is known from Montenegro (Schouten, 1992). The record from Croatia is the northernmost record for this species in the Balkan peninsula.…”

Psorosa mediterranella (Amsel, 1954) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Phycitinae) – a new species for the Croatian pyraloid moth fauna, with an updated checklist

“…After the publication of the first checklist koren (2020) wrote an article on three new montane species from Croatia: Catoptria pyramidellus (Treitschke, 1832), Crambus ericella (Hübner, 1813) and Udea alpinalis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), all from the family Crambidae. For the reason that the species C. pyramidellus was previously mentioned by Plant & JaKšić (2018) and was already listed under the number 38 in the revised checklist of Pyraloidea species in Croatia (Gumhalter, 2019b), only C. ericella and U. alpinalis can be added to the checklist. The finding of Friedlanderia cicatricella (Hübner, 1824) was published shortly afterward (koren & kulijer, 2020), as as was the finding of Dioryctria robiniella (Millière, 1865) in 2021 (koren, 2021a).…”

New data on the distribution of little-known Pyraloidea species from Croatia (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)

“…Over the last two decades, many surveys were undertaken to contribute to the knowledge of the Croatian Pyraloidea fauna (KOREN et al, 2015;GUMHALTER et al, 2018;KOREN, 2018;KOREN & ZADRAVEC, 2018;GUMHALTER, 2020;GUMHALTER et al, 2020;GUMHALTER & KUGINIG, 2021;GUMHALTER, 2021) and a first checklist was published in 2019a (GUMHALTER, 2019). Because of the continuous faunal additions, the list of species occurring in Croatia was updated twice (GUMHALTER, 2019b(GUMHALTER, , 2021, suggesting that the Pyraloidea fauna of that country is far from sufficiently known. This applies even to the best-studied Mediterranean biogeographic region, since the last additions to the Croatian Pyraloidea fauna originate from the coastal parts of the country (e.g.…”