Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) of Thrace Region of Turkey

By

Can Cengiz, Feza
Efetov, Konstantin Aleksandrovich
Kaya, Kamuran
Kucherenko, Elena E.
Okyar, Zühal
Tarmann, Gerhard M.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-1-18

Original Publication

Nota lepidopterologica

Volume

41

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

23--36

Subjects

attractant traps , European Turkey , Procridinae , Zygaeninae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bonn,

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.21065

 

Abstract

The Zygaenidae fauna of the Thrace Region (European Turkey) was studied by using attractant traps as well as by netting specimens in biotopes. Esters of 2-dodecenoic acid and stereoisomers of 2-butanol were used as sex attractants. Sixteen Zygaenidae species from five genera were found: Theresimima Strand, 1917 (1 species), Rhagades Wallengren, 1863 (2 species), Adscita Retzius, 1783 (3 species), Jordanita Verity, 1946 (4 species), and Zygaena Fabricius, 1775 (6 species). Rhagades (Rhagades) pruni (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) and Jordanita (Jordanita) globulariae (Hübner, 1793) were found as new for Turkey. The two species of the same genus Rh. (Rh.) pruni and Rh. (Wiegelia) amasina (Herrich-Schӓffer, 1851) were discovered in proximity to each other in different localities of the same Province Tekirdağ.