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- Title
HISTORICAL RECORDS: POLYGONIA EGEA (CRAMER, 1775), AN EXTINCT MEMBER, NOW A SCARCE VISITOR OF THE CARPATHIAN BASIN FAUNA (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE).
- Authors
Balint, Zsolt; Katona, Gergely
- 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.
- Subjects
POLYGONIA; NYMPHALIDAE; SPECIES; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Seria Stiintele Vietii (Life Sciences Series), 2018, Vol 28, Issue 2, p86
- ISSN
1584-2363
- Publication type
Article