Predation by Nymphs of Picromerus Bidens(heteroptera Pentatomidae Asopinae) on Caterpillarsof Euphydryas Aurinia Provincialis (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) in Italy

Genus Delplanqueia Leraut, 2001 and D. inscriptella (Duponchel, 1836) (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) in Italy

“…We revealed the presence in Italy of two species of the genus Delplanqueia Leraut, 2001: dilutella and inscriptella. Our findings showed that cortella is not present in Sardinia and the specimens cited by Hartig were Pempeliella matilella (Pinzari and Pinzari, 2019). D. dilutella is quite common in northern Italy but also in the center and in Sicily.…”

“…Thus, the mutual position of signa and S ratio may be good diagnostic features but not considered alone. Also, the specimens placed in Pempeliella cortella in Hartig's collection were well determined by Hartig as different from the other two species but were classified as Delplanqueia matilella (Pinzari and Pinzari, 2019). Of five Italian paratypes of D. matilella 1 ♂ and 3 ♀♀ were collected by Hartig and 1 ♀ by Amsel in Sardinia and preserved by Leraut (2001).…”

“…As evidence of this, in Pinzari's collection there are 59 ♂♂ and 25 ♀♀ of D. inscriptella and a single of D. dilutella (Figure 1). They were collected from 1989 to 2017 in the context of a wide ongoing survey on lepidopterofauna (Pinzari, 2009(Pinzari, , 2016a(Pinzari, , 2016bPinzari and Sbordoni, 2013;Pinzari et al, 2013Pinzari et al, , 2015Pinzari et al, , 2016bPinzari et al, , 2017bPinzari et al, , 2018Pinzari et al, , 2019.…”

“…Pempeliella cortella is cited for northern Italy and Sardinia, while dilutella for the north of Italy and the isles, Sicily and Sardinia. Recently, P. dilutella, but still considered as inscriptella, was also recorded in an ongoing survey of the Lepidoptera fauna in central (Pinzari, 2009, Pinzari et al, 2010Pinzari and Sbordoni, 2013;Pinzari et al, 2013aPinzari et al, , 2013bPinzari et al, , 2015Pinzari, 2016aPinzari, , 2016bPinzari et al, 2016aPinzari et al, , 2016bPinzari et al, , 2017aPinzari et al, , 2017bPinzari et al, , 2018aPinzari et al, , 2018bPinzari et al, , 2019aPinzari et al, , 2019bPinzari, 2019;Pinzari & Pinzari, 2019) and southern Italy (Scalercio, 2016). According to Leraut (2001), to clarify our understanding of the distribution of these species in Italy and also verify the goodness of the historical faunistic information in the literature of the last century, we studied dissecting recentlycollected specimens in our collection and other private collections of central Italy and examining specimens from all Italian regions in ancient collections in "Museo civico di Zoologia di Roma" and "Museo di Zoologia dell'Università la Sapienza di Roma".…”

Contribution to the knowledge of Lepidoptera fauna of Lampedusa: Bifascioides leucomelanella (Rebel, 1917) and Ceutholopha isidis (Zeller, 1867) (Lepidoptera) new to Italy

“…Research on Lepidoptera fauna in Central Italy has been carried out for many years and showed how much the fauna (Pinzari, 2016b;Pinzari & Pinzari, 2019a,b;Pinzari et al, 2018b) and biology (Pinzari & Sbordoni, 2013;Pinzari, 2016aPinzari, , 2019Pinzari et al, 2017Pinzari et al, , 2018aPinzari et al, , 2019Pinzari et al, , 2019a of Lepidoptera in Italy are still scarcely known. Recently, the survey has also been extended to the southern Italy and isles leading results that prompt further investigation.…”